{"id":99954,"date":"2018-11-16T00:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/facebook-fires-consultants-following-damning-new-york-times-report\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:40:40","slug":"facebook-fires-consultants-following-damning-new-york-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/facebook-fires-consultants-following-damning-new-york-times-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook fires consultants following damning New York Times report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Facebook has terminated its contract with political communications firm Definers Public Affairs following a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/14\/technology\/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> that described Facebook as hiring consultants there who spread negative stories about rivals and questioned its critics funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Times found as part of a six-month investigation that staff at Definers and an affiliate wrote negative articles about Google and Apple that were frequently shared on conservative news sites. Facebook has clashed with both companies in various policy debates, including on privacy.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/11\/new-york-times-update\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> published early today, Facebook denied that Definers was asked to produce articles on its behalf. Instead, Facebook said Definers was used to contact journalists about \u201cimportant press calls\u201d and to investigate funding behind its critics at the organization \u201cFreedom from Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times found that Definers aimed to undermine the activists from that group by circulating a research document connecting their work to George Soros, a liberal financier maligned by conservatives. Criticisms of Soros, who is Jewish, often echo longstanding anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish financiers shaping world events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention was to demonstrate that it was not simply a spontaneous grassroots campaign, as it claimed, but supported by a well-known critic of our company,\u201d the Facebook statement said. \u201cTo suggest that this was an anti-Semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Definers spokesperson said the research referenced in the Times report \u201cwas entirely factual and based on public records, including public statements by one of its organizers about receiving funding from Mr. Soros foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/swedish-centre-party-leader-annie-loof-to-head-new-government-talks\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish Centre Party leader to head new government talks<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/facebook-fires-consultants-following-damning-new-york-times-report\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Facebook has terminated its contract with polit..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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