emptywheel

Sheera: The NYT stories, plural, are being broadly picked up and sowing more and more misunderstanding. Do you bear absolutely no responsibility for the things you deem to hold FB responsible for? Zero? NYT is above all that?

Again, reading his tweets, he specifically cites ads. Hence the points I made in my story. You wrote “Goldman was addressing all of IRA’s activity on Facebook.” I just don’t understand how you came to that conclusion.

HELLOOO. You still don't even understand the basic point. You are doing precisely what you accused him of. The indictment is ALSO not all the ads, and yet you treat it as if it is.

Do you know this very basic fact: prosecutors don't actually include things in an indictment that 1) aren't illegal 2) don't prove the crimes the indictment alleges? Are you familiar with that?

I’m not going to get into a debate with you over the indictment. My story was about the tweets of a Facebook executive in charge of ads on the platform.

Thanks. When I do that, then it will be an appropriate response. I'm not debating the indictment obviously. I'm pointing out laughable errors you refuse to even review.

We obviously disagree based on one underlying fact. You think Goldman was referencing the entirety of the indictment, and more broadly, all IRA activity on his platform. I am taking him at his word when he specifically tweeted about ads.

Aha! You've now admitted your fundamental error. Goldman was referring to "all the ads." Not "all the ads in the indictment." See your error now? Which is why it's an analytical error to use JUST the ads in the indictment to assess his claims about ALL the ads.