when they are being attacked. i m aware that three of my panel all come from papers that were part of this consortium, but madu, surely facebook do have a point here. i mean, isn t this a case of the old media, ie the newspapers, going after new media? facebook is still the new kid on the block, they re not even 20 years old yet? it s hard to call them - the new kid on the block when you look at the scale of, i you know, even if we don t call it harm, the scale - of impact, that we see in terms of who they touch globally so i m not quite sure we even have a quarter of that reach . even at the consortium - with 17 news organisations. but i would say that we ve discussed this internally . and we ve reported it- in our piece today as well which says there were good faith efforts from facebook . researchers to try and wrangle with ways to solve some -
groups in this space. so basically his philanthropic group luminate is running her government and press relations in europe. he previously did give money to whistle blower aid and has pledged that he will continue to support her in many different ways, including travel expenses and including amplifying her message through a lot of his big organisations. so he s only one of many. just to clarify, she has not said publicly that he is backing haugen. but they don t specifically comment on this case. emily, what have facebook said in response to the slew of stories? they keep coming and coming and coming. facebook has taken a very defensive posture in response to all of this. i ve spoken to a lot of people
isn t this a case of the old media, ie the newspapers, going after new media? facebook is still the new kid on the block, they re not even 20 years old yet? it s hard to call them - the new kid on the block when you look at the scale of, i you know, even if we don t call it harm, the scale - of impact, that we see in terms of who they touch globally i m not quite sure we evenl have a quarter of that reach even at the consortium i with 17 new organisations. we ve reported on this there were efforts froml facebook researchers to try i and wrangle with ways to solve these really extremely thorny issues like ethnic violence - and civil war, gender issues, religious inflammatory- material. and in each context, i this is so complex and so different and unique. the company is based - in silicon valley in the us. they don t have that sense