exactly. still ahead there was russian meddling, data sharing and hate speech. facebook has seen crisis after crisis in the past several years, and now the new york times is looking at how top executives responded namely by delaying, denying and deflecting. that explosive story is coming up on morning joe . here we go.
seems that sandberg s main concern and that of other executives was to contain the damage to facebook and not to contain the damage to our democracy. that was their focus. when the problem finally got so big and they realized how big it was they admitted a piece of it and then had to revise and revise and then said it was worse than that. so we see the slow drip. it s very damaging to the company, as you know. and leigh gallagher, what do you do? what does a corporation do? the answer is pretty easy. this is a terrible scandal for facebook. it interferes with american democracy. and you have someone at the top of the food chain in a corporation that did everything she could do to keep the truth from the board. to keep the truth from americans. and would lash out at others inside of facebook that actually were trying to get answers to how much the russians did
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everything else we heard about over the years. nick, what s so surprising is and it starts in the first paragraph, it starts in the lead of your story,er and that is that every time there was an executive at facebook that tried to right wrongs it seems in this story that sheryl sandberg was seething, sheryl sandberg got angry. she was angry when the board was finally told what the truth was. she was angry when an executive began to have concerns and started investigating the extent of russia s interference, of russian agents interference in the democratic process, and she was lashing out at people who were trying to be transparent a year later. it s really amazing. this problem was bubbling up under the surface. they tried to get a handle on it but for a very long time through the election and well after it
theories and, unfortunately, you got other people in the republican party who may actually have a future in the republican party who are spinning conspiracy theories too. forepeople who don t know what we re talking about, we ll get to this in a moment. the president gave an interviewer with the daily caller that made an accusation that people often vote once, go to their cars, change their hats and their shirts and come back and vote again. he went on to say it s really a disgrace what s going on. we ll get to that in just a moment, joe. let s continues our conversation about the front page piece in the new york times titled delay, deny, deflect how facebook leaders leaned out in a charisma. nick, what s been the reaction from facebook to the story so far. have you heard from them in overnight facebook cut ties with the pr firm in the story while also saying that they had not specifically asked the finers to do this or that