The social network dumped the news at 5pm the day before Thanksgiving.
The truth is that Elliot Schrage could NOT have hired or directed Republican dirty tricksters Definers Public Affairs without the direct approval of his Commander in Chief Mark Zuckerberg or even Facebook’s #2 Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer.
Schrage is not innocent by any means. He ran Facebook’s Communication’s department more like a political party. Why was Definers Public Affairs chosen?
Is it a coincidence that Definers Public Affairs promoted negative stories about FB competitors - Apple and Google?
Or that they had experience running propaganda campaigns against Soros?
Facebook offered up a departing executive Wednesday to shoulder the blame for hiring a Republican-leaning PR firm to dig up dirt on liberal billionaire donor George Soros.
Elliot Schrage, the company’s Head of Communications and Policy, took the fall in a blog post, admitting he asked Definers Public Affairs to open a file on Soros after the philanthropist called Facebook “a menace to society” in a speech earlier this year.
“We had not heard such criticism from him before and wanted to determine if he had any financial motivation, Schrage wrote. “Definers researched this using public information.”
Schrage also admitted Definers urged journalists to investigate Soros’ links to “Freedom from Facebook,” hoping to debunk activists’ claims that the campaign was a grassroots coalition.
Elliot Schrage has a history. He apologized to Natasha Lamb, an investor after she accused him of making a 'sexist' remark to her BUT only after she wrote about it in the Financial Times.
Elliot Schrage, apologized to Natasha Lamb, a managing partner at Arjuna Capital, after an exchange at the end of Facebook's investor meeting where she raised concerns about Facebook's gender pay gap and other scandals, including fake news and hate speech.
— Business Insider, June 11, 2018
