Examples of using Definers in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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After the Times report appeared,Facebook ended its contract with Definers.
Sandberg told CBS that Definers had been hired by"the communications team.".
The two also said they didn't know that Facebook hired Definers or about the firm's work.
Definers has ties to a conservative news site NTK Network, which published dozens of critical articles about Google and Apple.
The report also saidFacebook hired a PR firm called Definers Public Affairs to dig up dirt on its competitors.
Definers did encourage members of the press to look into the funding of‘Freedom from Facebook,' an anti-Facebook organization.
During Zuckerberg's wide-ranging interview, he said he learned of the Definers' work with Facebook by reading the Times report.
Facebook acknowledged that Definers had encouraged reporters to look into the funding of“Freedom from Facebook,” an anti-Facebook organization.
Facebook has since responded to the NYT article, rejecting some of the report as inaccurate-and denying outright that it ever asked Definers to smear anyone on its behalf.
The New York Timesis wrong to suggest that we ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook's behalf- or to spread misinformation.".
Following comments critical of Facebook by Apple CEO Tim Cook, a spate of articles critical of Apple and Google began appearing on NTK Network,an organization which shares an office and staff with Definers.
The New York Timesis wrong to suggest that we ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook's behalf- or to spread misinformation," the company said in a blog post.
Later that month, on the day before Thanksgiving, Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and its then head of communications, Elliot Schrage,published a post admitting that they had hired Definers, a right wing public relations firm.
A research document circulated by Definers to reporters this summer, just a month after the House hearing, cast Mr. Soros as the unacknowledged force behind what appeared to be a broad anti-Facebook movement.”.
Zuckerberg stressed to reporters he did not know that Facebook had hired the organization,called Definers Public Affairs, with which the company since has severed ties.
The story described how Definers, a Republican opposition-research firm hired by Facebook, used NTK Network, an alleged“fake news shop,” to spread good stories about Facebook and bad stories about its competitors, even as Facebook vowed to clean up the fake news on its platform.
Further, a Facebook spokesperson indicated"It iswrong to suggest that we have ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook's behalf, or communicate anything untrue.".
Wikipedia describes Definers as“an American right leaning opposition research firm…[that] performs media monitoring services, conducts research using the Freedom of Information Act and also creates strategic communication to negatively influence the public image about individuals, firms, candidates and organizations who oppose their clients”.
The report revealed that the companyhad used a Republican-linked consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs, to plant stories in the media attacking Facebook competitors and critics, including Apple, Google, Tim Cook and George Soros.
On November 22, 2018, Sandberg acknowledged that work produced by Definers"was incorporated into materials presented to me and I received a small number of emails where Definers was referenced.".