influence its platform to influence the election. but the new york times said they delayed, denied and deflected, facebook leaders mike zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg tried to stall the evidence and later denied it was true. in fact, mark zuckerberg famously wants called russian meddling a pretty crazy idea. and later facebook deflected by hiring a conservative p.r. firm to blame other tech giants like apple and google. he goes on to say the p.r. firm even got them to report on the financial ties between the enemies of facebook and billionaire liberal donor george soros. today, sorrels called for facebook to initiate an independent investigation into its lobbying and public relations work. the president of the open society foundation which is the principal conduit for soros donations road and an open letter to sheryl sandberg saying it s been disappointing to see