15. “Reading the questions was a painful but productive exercise”: “Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions,” New York Times “Bits” blog, May 11, 2010.
16. Since opening the platform: Sarah Perez, “More Cyberbullying on Facebook, Social Sites than Rest of the Web,” New York Times, May 10, 2010.
17. Consumer Reports estimated that 7.5 million: “CR Survey: 7.5 Million Facebook Users are Under the Age of 13, Violating the Site’s Terms,” Consumer Reports, May, 2011.
18. As early as 2008, the company had been battling: Lisa Belkin, “Censoring Breastfeeding on Facebook,” New York Times “Motherlode” blog, December 19, 2008.
Chapter 5: The Warrant Canary
1. On June 14, CrowdStrike: Editorial Team, “CrowdStrike’s Work with the Democratic National Committee: Setting the Record Straight,” CrowdStrike, June 5, 2020.
2. ThreatConnect and Secureworks: ThreatConnect Research Team, “Does a BEAR Leak in the Woods?” ThreatConnect, August 12, 2016. Secureworks Counter Threat Unit, “Threat Group 4127 Targets Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign,” Secureworks, June 16, 2016.
3. Russia had been caught doping: Motez Bishara, “Russian Doping: ‘An Unprecedented Attack on the Integrity of Sport & the Olympic Games,” CNN website, July 18, 2016.
4. Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign: Jonathan Martin and Alan Rappeport, “Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Resign D.N.C. Post,” New York Times, July 24, 2016.
5. The Podesta emails, which highlighted mudslinging: Scott Detrow, “What’s in the Latest WikiLeaks Dump of Clinton Campaign Emails,” NPR, October 12, 2016.
6. Stamos was Yahoo’s information security officer: Arik Hesseldahl, “Yahoo to Name TrustyCon Founder Alex Stamos as Next Chief Information Security Officer,” Vox, February 28, 2014.
7. he discovered that the vulnerability: Joseph Menn, “Yahoo Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence,” Reuters, October 4, 2016.
8. “Russia, if you’re listening”: Michael S. Schmidt, “Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?,” New York Times, July 13, 2018.
9. his campaign was busily buying up millions: Ian Bogost and Alexis C. Madrigal, “How Facebook Works for Trump,” Atlantic, April 17, 2020.
10. Over the last few years, the campaigns: Davey Alba, “How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War,” Buzzfeed News, September 4, 2018.
11. The Fancy Bear hackers had stolen: Ben Chapman, “George Soros Documents Published ‘by Russian Hackers’ say US Security Services,” Independent, August 15, 2016.
12. in November 2015, Russia’s Office of the Prosecutor-Generaclass="underline" Jennifer Ablan, “Russia Bans George Soros Foundation as State Security ‘Threat’,” Reuters, November 30, 2015.
Chapter 6: A Pretty Crazy Idea
1. Among them were Trump’s former: Robert Costa, “Former Carson Campaign Manager Barry Bennett is Quietly Advising Trump’s Top Aides,” Washington Post, January 22, 2016.
2. He had been accused of misdemeanor battery: Kerry Saunders and Jon Schuppe, “Authorities Drop Battery Charges against Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski,” NBC News website, April 14, 2016.
3. “I think the idea that fake news on Facebook”: Adrienne Jane Burke, “Facebook Influenced Election? Crazy Idea, Says Zuckerberg,” Techonomy, November 11, 2016.
Chapter 7: Company over Country
1. Trump received briefings: Salvador Rizzo, “Did the FBI Warn the Trump Campaign about Russia?” Washington Post, September 20, 2019.
2. His earliest speechwriter, Kate Losse, wrote: Kate Losse, “I Was Zuckerberg’s Speechwriter. ‘Companies over Countries’ Was His Early Motto,” Vox, April 11, 2018.
3. “The American people deserve to see”: Kyle Cheney and Elana Schor, “Schiff Seeks to Make Russia-linked Facebook Ads Public,” Politico, October 2, 2017.
Chapter 8: Delete Facebook
1. “The breach allowed the company”: Matthew Rosenberg, Nicholas Confessore and Carole Cadwalladr, “How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions,” New York Times, March 17, 2018.
2. “the unprecedented data harvesting”: Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison, “Revealed: 50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested for Cambridge Analytica in Major Data Breach,” Guardian, March 17, 2018.
3. up to 87 million Facebook users: Rosenberg, Confessore and Cadwalladr, “How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions.”
4. Three weeks later, Zuckerberg sat: “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Testifies on User Data,” April 10, 2018, Video can be found on C-Span.org.
5. How Cambridge Analytica had breached Facebook users’ privacy: State of New York et al. v. Facebook.
6. In 2012, Parakilas alerted senior executives: Paul Lewis, “‘Utterly Horrifying’: Ex-Facebook Insider Says Covert Data Harvesting Was Routine,” Guardian, March 20, 2018.
7. In 2014, Zuckerberg shifted strategies: CPO Team, “Inside the Facebook Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal, CPO Magazine, April 22, 2018.
8. multiplying his data set to nearly 90 million Facebook users: Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel, “Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users,” New York Times, April 4, 2018.
9. Klobuchar of Minnesota called for Zuckerberg to testify: Brooke Seipel and Ali Breland, “Senate Judiciary Dem Calls on Zuckerberg to Testify before Committee,” The Hill, March 17, 2018.
10. Kennedy of Louisiana joined Klobuchar: Reuters staff, “Republican Senator Joins Call for Facebook CEO to Testify about Data Use,” Reuters, March 19, 2018.
11. Cher announcing the next day: Cher, “2day I did something very hard 4me,” Tweet posted March 20, 2018.
12. On Tuesday, March 20, 2018: Casey Newton, “Facebook Will hold an Emergency Meeting to Let Employees Ask Questions about Cambridge Analytica,” The Verge, March 20, 2018.
13. That same day, members of the Federal Trade Commission: Cecilia Kang, “Facebook Faces Growing Pressure over Data and Privacy Inquiries,” New York Times, March 20, 2018.
14. that settlement had resolved a complaint: FTC, “Facebook Settles FTC Charges that it Deceived Consumers by Failing to Keep Privacy Promises,” press release, November 29, 2011.
15. British authorities also opened an investigation: Mark Scott, “Cambridge Analytica Helped ‘Cheat’ Brexit Vote and US Election, Claims Whistleblower,” Politico, March 27, 2018.
16. On March 19, Facebook hired a digital forensics firm: “Pursuing Forensic Audits to Investigate Cambridge Analytica Claims,” Newsroom post, March 19, 2018.
17. from a report in the Guardian: Harry Davies, “Ted Cruz Using Firm that Harvested Data on Millions of Unwitting Facebook Users,” Guardian, December 11, 2015.
18. In a panel called “In Technology We Trust?”: “Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: There Will Have to Be More Regulation on Tech from the Government,” video posted on CNBC, January 23, 2018.