It never occurred to anyone at Facebook to audit what Definers was doing?
For goodness sake, make sure you don't read the comments on that post.
1) In Facebook's official response [1], they say
> Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media – not least because they have on several occasions sent out invitations to hundreds of journalists about important press calls on our behalf.
But somehow neither Sheryl Sanders nor Mark Zuckerberg [2] were aware of this "well known" relationship.
2) If Definers' job were really as benign as exposing faux-grassroots criticism, why mask the connection to Facebook by going through then? Why wouldn't Facebook respond directly, as they did to the New York Times exposé?
[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-didn...
Either they don’t know about major decisions of their own company and they’re too incompetent to lead, or they do know and they’re too corrupt to lead. Either way, they need to go.
It’s literally becoming farcical to see these people apologize over and over again while displaying the same pattern of greed, tone-deafness, and recklessness.