What's up with Facebook not cooperating?

[SHRED]

Mueller had to go and get the evidence after many denials.

Is Zuckerberg in the doo doo also?

[underthematrix]

1. Rachel's guest explained this. The reason they require a subpoena

is more of a customer relations strategy. It means they won't violate customer privacy but they will in the face of a subpoena. BTW, they've already complied with the subpoena.

[SHRED]

2. Was Facebook forthright...

...when they denied any Russian money for political influence?
Did they sincerely not know at the time?

Just trying to understand this.

[PoliticAverse]

4. I'm guessing they had "plausible deniability" because they didn't look too closely...

at the source of the ads.

NY Times article on the ads:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/facebook-russian-political-ads.html

[Raster]

9. yeah, and I'm sure those ads that were PAID FOR IN RUBLES...

...didn't set off any alarms either. Damn Ruskies... so good at subterfuge.

[underthematrix]

5. I think they did it to protect their brand but it may possible there are Russian agents

inside FB org and maybe they denied it until the FBI could do what they needed to do, i.e. surveillance of specific individuals, wiretaps, etc.

[jl_theprofessor]

7. I'm still trying to find out

If there's any difference in the types of ads bought by Russian agents and the kind any company can buy. You can go on there's, make a huge ad but, and never talk to anyone. There's not a human face involved in the process. If your IP says USA, I'm not sure what flags would go up. But I've never taken out a 50k ad buy on Facebook for political purposes so maybe something different happens in that process.

[Hortensis]

3. That's obviously PART of it. But Facebook was used by Russia as a weapon

of war against our nation, and it turns out Facebook knew it was happening over many months, including, as a NYT investigative reporter said, that Russian agents were "interacting" with their unaware American users, "a huge deal."

As for complying with the subpoena, reporting now is that Mueller's team came in with a search warrant and took the information. Apparently compliance was less than what was needed for the investigation.

This is a rather fascinating NYT story by the same reporter of a Russian attack on Germany using social media as weapon. Spontaneous protests occurred across Germany, seemingly out of nowhere, sparked by Russia's spread of that fake news story about how authorities supposedly refused to act after a 13-year-old was supposedly raped by brown-skinned men, none of which happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/rt-sputnik-and-russias-new-theory-of-war.html

[MFM008]

6. All about the love of money

My friends. Money money money. As if Zuckerberg didn't have enough of it.

[Cryptoad]

8. Can u say Comrade Zuckerberg?