{"id":12593,"date":"2018-03-22T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2018-03-22T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:15:00","slug":"did-the-times-change-a-story-because-facebook-complained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2018\/03\/22\/did-the-times-change-a-story-because-facebook-complained\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Times change a story because Facebook complained?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might not have registered for most people trying to keep up with the maelstrom of news this week about the Facebook data leak<\/a> — the one in which the shadowy, Trump-linked data company Cambridge Analytica got personal details on more than 50 million users — but a number of sharp-eyed New York Times<\/em> critics noticed that one of the paper’s stories about the topic changed as it was edited.<\/p>\n

So what, you might ask? After all, that kind of thing happens on news websites all the time: A short version goes up quickly and then later is replaced by a longer version as more information comes in.<\/p>\n

Except in this case<\/a>, the Times<\/em> removed a line suggesting that Alex Stamos<\/a> — a senior Facebook executive in charge of security — wanted to be more open about Russian involvement on the platform, and Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg shut him down.<\/p>\n

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Lean On pic.twitter.com\/5ldLDjJHAS<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n