MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA — Facesuck admitted on Wednesday it hired a right-wing PR firm to investigate George Soros after the billionaire publicly criticized the company. <br /><br />Faceblow's outgoing head of communications and policy Elliot Schrage was forced to fall on the grenade for hiring Definers Public Affairs in a memo first reported on by TechCrunch. <br />Schrage said that, "In January 2018, investor and philanthropist George Soros attacked Facebook in a speech at Davos, calling us a menace to society." <br />Later, when a group called Freedom from Facebook emerged, Faceplant sent the Definers to find some answers. <br />The Definers learned that Soros was apparently funding some of the groups members. <br />Both CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg had said they had no knowledge Definers had been hired until the news was made public by a New York Times report last week. <br />Looks like the NYT report jogged Sandberg's memory, who then tried to walk back her denial saying that Definers work had "crossed her desk."<br /><br />Sandberg then tried to explain that the reason they hired a right-wing PR firm was not to spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Soros. <br />Apparently, Facebites was just looking for good old fashioned dirt to smear on Soros instread.
