Facebook Lies About Paying For Article About How Trustworthy They Are
John Gruber, on Daring Fireball:
An utterly uncritical story on Facebook’s anti-disinformation team appears on Teen Vogue with no byline but no “sponsored content” label. Then Sheryl Sandberg links to it approvingly. Folks at Facebook deny it’s sponsored content, including those profiled in the story. Then the article disappears from Teen Vogue. Then it reappears with a “sponsored content” label. Then it disappears again.
Facebook payed Teen Vogue to write an article hyping up how trustworthy Facebook is, and then lied about whether they had paid for it. A great look for Facebook and Teen Vogue. The hypocrisy is remarkable.