Review: Why Facebook can’t Repair itself

A Facebook user was scratched to find out why his day did not respond to his messages. Maybe there was a simple explanation – either he was sick or on vacation.

So at 10 o’clock one night at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, he brought his Facebook account to the company’s internal media and started looking at what he had. His politics, his life, his interests — even where he lives.

The incumbent will be fired for his or her actions, along with 51 other employees who misused their business access information, an opportunity available at the time to anyone working on Facebook, regardless of their job or old age. Most of the 51 people were like him: men who look after the women they love.

In September 2015, after Alex Stamos, the new security chief, brought the matter to Mark Zuckerberg’s notice, the CEO ordered a re-enactment of a plan to ban workers from using firearms. It was Stamos’ lack of success, which convinced Zuckerberg that what Facebook had done was right, not his system.

This starts The Evil Truth, a new Facebook account written by former New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang. With Frenkel’s expertise in security issues, Kang’s expertise in technical and operational principles, as well as their in-depth sources, the duo provides a positive record for Facebook years ahead of the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Stamos would no longer have a chance. News from the Facebook business may have grown in the coming years but after Stamos faced serious threats, including Russia’s interference in US elections, he was fired for making Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg face untrue facts. After his departure, the administration continued to refuse to deal with a number of devastating issues, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Myanmar genocide, and the well-known false history.

Frenkel and Kang claim that Facebook’s problems today are not due to a company that has gone astray. Instead it is part of his design, built on top of Zuckerberg’s spectacles, the carefree culture he lived in, and the great ambitions he pursued with Sandberg.

While the company is still young, the lack of foresight and thought may be justified. But since then, the Zuckerberg and Sandberg elections have shown that growth and income are paramount.

For example, in an article titled “Company Over Country,” the authors describe how the administration tried to cover up how Russian elections were disrupted on the platform from the US legislature, Congress, and the American people. He analyzed several Facebook security team’s efforts to publish more of his findings, and Cherry chose the ones that confirmed the dangers and prejudices of the problem. When Stamos asked the company to reinstate the issue, some executives rejected the idea as “dangerous” and simply looked at their assets to manage public affairs and retain controls.