Mark Zuckerberg's response to the NYT's damning Facebook story proved the newspaper's point.

"The day after a New York Times story was published that painted the company’s leaders as out of touch, conniving, and image-obsessed in the face of world-altering crises, Facebook staged a daylong marathon of half-denials, dodges, and redirections that did little to refute the piece’s key claims. If anything, it reinforced them. One of the most explosive charges was that Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm, Definers Public Affairs, to publish negative propaganda about its rivals and disparage its critics, including by painting George Soros as the driving force behind anti-Facebook activism." Read on...