BuzzFeed Newsreported that the text file was distributed to journalists in the descent , adding that it ’s one of at least two on Soros that were pull together after he publically criticized Facebook sooner this twelvemonth . The text file conflated Soros with the Freedom From Facebook hunting expedition through a series of cherry - picked news clippings and United States Department of State in all caps that “ Soros is oppose to Facebook . ” Per BuzzFeed News :
“ of late , a number of progressive group came together to spring the Freedom From Facebook crusade which has a six - figure advertising budget , ” the document reads . “ It is not unmortgaged who is provide the great amount of funding for the campaign or what their motive is . At least four of the group in the coalition take in financial backing or are aligned with George Soros who has in public knock Facebook . Neither Freedom From Facebook nor Open Markets Institute have answered questions about who is funding this military campaign . ”
The papers falls in rail line with the narrative used by the company’sapparent fall guy , Facebook ’s already outgoing Head of Communications and Policy Elliot Schrage , in amemoshared on November 21 . In it , Schrage doubled down on the company ’s defense of its resistance hunting expedition by misleadingly tell that Soros was funding members of theFreedom From Facebookeffort .
“ [ W]hen the ‘ exemption from Facebook ’ campaign come forth as a so - called grassroots coalescency , the team ask Definers to help read the radical behind them , ” Schrage wrote . “ They learned that George Soros was funding several of the coalition members . They ready documents and spread these to the printing press to show that this was not simply a unwritten grassroots movement . ”
Soros ’ Open Society Foundations has said that the billionaire ’s support of the civil right advocacy group Color of Change , which was need with the campaign , was totallyunrelatedto Freedom From Facebook .
Sandberg ab initio attempted to outdistance herself from the decision to engage Definers by claiming that shedidn’t know about it . However , in the memo partake by Facebook the day before Thanksgiving in what appeared to be anattempt to bury it , Sandberg wrote : “ Some of [ Definers ’ ] work was incorporated into material presented to me and I received a small-scale number of emails where Definers was referenced . ”
In spite of its obvious attack to make this whole thing go away , Facebook ’s public relations issues sure keep getting worse .
[ BuzzFeed News ]
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