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A comment on Elliot Schrage on Definers.

Re:Elliot Schrage on Definers by nemild on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:28PM (#18506886)
> This explanation serves to protect Zuckerberg and Sandberg from additional blame, even as Sandberg strives to show she’s not passing the buck by noting “I want to be clear that I oversee our Comms team and take full responsibility for their work and the PR firms who work with us.”

> Schrage’s defense of his bosses provides additional cover for Zuckerberg’s comments from a CNN interview that ran tonight in which he said he won’t step down as Facebook’s chairman and hopes to continue working alongside Sandberg for decades to come. The memo could have been aimed at quieting internal unrest about Facebook’s chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan. His ties to the GOP, support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and involvement with Facebook’s latest PR troubles had led some employees to question his employment. Now Facebook has someone else to take the heat.

> Schrage is effectively jumping on the grenade here.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/schrage-definers/

For those interested, I did my own reflection into Facebook.

Inside the Bubble at Facebook: https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html

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Re:Elliot Schrage on Definers by TrainedMonkey on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:38PM (#18506922)
I think the analogy of Schrage jumping on the grenade it apt. Here is the quote from the linked article where he explicitly takes all of the blame:

> Who knew about this work, and who signed off on it?

>> Responsibility for these decisions rests with leadership of the Communications team. That’s me. Mark and Sheryl relied on me to manage this without controversy.

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Re:Elliot Schrage on Definers by nighthawk1 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:45PM (#18506955)
Like a pressure release valve for Mark and Sheryl. I do think the pressure for Mark to step aside will grow stronger in the coming year. Even though the class structure prevents a hostile removal, the social pressure will be substantial.
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Re:Elliot Schrage on Definers by bertil on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:47PM (#18506964)
The analogy is very apt but I don’t think him presenting it that way is disingenuous: both Mark & Sheryl have a lot to handle and couldn’t possibly be involved in those decisions, not until it’s on the front page of the NYTimes. I’m not sure that Schrage would be able to pick it up either (as he points out): it was very likely only raised to him as a problem, possibly only after the Times published.

Schrage’s decision would at most to admit to it publicly and pro-actively or not, and when.

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