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The Daily

What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The story of Facebook in the past few years has been that of a company slow to understand how powerful it has become. But an investigation by The New York Times finds that once Facebook’s leaders understood the problems they faced, they sought to conceal them. Guests: Nicholas Confessore and Sheera Frenkel, two of the reporters behind the investigation. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From The New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is The Daily.

0:07.0

Today, the story of Facebook has been of a company slow to understand how powerful it

0:16.0

has become.

0:17.6

But an investigation by the Times finds that even once its leaders understood the problem,

0:23.7

they then sought to conceal it.

0:26.6

Two of the reporters behind the story, Nick Confessori and Shira Frankle, on what they

0:31.8

found.

0:32.8

It's Friday, November 16th.

0:38.0

Hello and welcome to today's Facebook press call.

0:44.4

There will be prepared remarks and a Q&A to follow.

0:46.9

Now I'd like to turn it all over to you here in Peru and place our communication team

0:50.7

who will stick this on.

0:52.2

Joining us on the call today we have Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO.

0:56.6

We're happy to take a few questions on yesterday's news, but hope to focus the majority of

1:00.8

the questions on the topic at hand.

1:03.0

With that, let me turn it over to Mark to get us started.

1:05.7

Thanks, Karen.

1:06.7

Hey everyone and thanks for joining us today.

1:09.2

Before we get started, I want to take a moment to talk about yesterday's story.

1:13.4

We published a response last night, but I want to be very clear about one thing out front.

1:18.4

I've said many times before that we were too slow to spot Russian interference, got

1:23.4

too slow to get on top of it.

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