facebook was served with a warrant from DOJ

[bluestarone]

and i'm wondering don't they have lawyers guiding them? i sure hope they DID NOT release any info on the anti tRump organizers

[jberryhill]

1. That's normal procedure

If the DoJ asked any of my clients to simply give them customer data, I would certainly ask (and have asked) the DoJ to get a warrant and serve it.

Would you rather it work some other way?

[bluestarone]

2. no i just

am upset if facebook just handed info over without consulting there own lawyers first? and fight the warrant

[jberryhill]

6. Certainly their legal department reviewed the warrant

And would have objected if it was vague or overbroad

[Not Ruth]

3. Facebook gives nothing without a warrant,Mueller had to get warrants too,Facebook says that is a law

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/15/media/facebook-mueller-ads/index.html




Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election, after they obtained a search warrant for the information.
Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of ads and related information it discovered on its site linked to a Russian troll farm, as well as detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way the ads were targeted at American Facebook users, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
(On Sunday, Facebook told CNN in a statement that it was providing information to Mueller, "including ads and related account information.&quot
The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller's office a fuller picture of who was behind the ad buys and how the ads may have influenced voter sentiment during the 2016 election.
Facebook did not give copies of the ads to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees when it met with them last week on the grounds that doing so would violate their privacy policy, sources with knowledge of the briefings said. Facebook's policy states that, in accordance with the federal Stored Communications Act, it can only turn over the stored contents of an account in response to a search warrant.

[bluestarone]

4. great

that Mueller got the info from facebook but i read where Trumps lawyers want private info from facebook about ANTI TRUMP people organizing anti trump things? this is personal info like all of us here! i'm just hoping face book lawyers won't give to trumps lawyers UNLESS it's legal to turn it over

[Not Ruth]

5. I think that what one does on Facebook belongs to Facebook

They will not give it to anyone else (without a warrant), but as far as Facebook is concerned, it belongs to them. Their policy is to not give up anything that belongs to Facebook. They are protecting their rights, not yours.

Monetizing that is what makes Zuckerberg rich.


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[Not Ruth]

7. Zuckerberg responds

I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.

Every day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas.

Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like.

The facts suggest the greatest role Facebook played in the 2016 election was different from what most are saying:

- More people had a voice in this election than ever before. There were billions of interactions discussing the issues that may have never happened offline. Every topic was discussed, not just what the media covered.

- This was the first US election where the internet was a primary way candidates communicated. Every candidate had a Facebook page to communicate directly with tens of millions of followers every day.

- Campaigns spent hundreds of millions advertising online to get their messages out even further. That's 1000x more than any problematic ads we've found.

- We ran "get out the vote" efforts that helped as many as 2 million people register to vote. To put that in perspective, that's bigger than the get out the vote efforts of the Trump and Clinton campaigns put together. That's a big deal.

After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive. But the data we have has always shown that our broader impact -- from giving people a voice to enabling candidates to communicate directly to helping millions of people vote -- played a far bigger role in this election.

We will continue to work to build a community for all people. We will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation and subvert elections. We'll keep working to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and to ensure our community is a platform for all ideas and force for good in democracy.