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The Facebook Dilemma

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

We filmed four dozen original interviews while making The Facebook Dilemma. Our reporting team conducted in-depth interviews with current and former Facebook executives, internet activists, government and intelligence officials in the United States and around the world, the digital chief of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and leading journalists and scholars. Explore many of these interviews — and see how we used them in the film — in this interactive version of The Facebook Dilemma, part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project.
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The Facebook Dilemma
A major, two-night investigation of the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

Interviews

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James Clapper
Interview with James R. Clapper, the director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Soleio Cuervo
Interview with Soleio Cuervo, a designer at Facebook from 2005-2011, where he helped create the platform’s “Like” feature.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Dipayan Ghosh
Interview with Dipayan Ghosh, privacy and public policy advisor at Facebook from 2015-2017.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Nathaniel Gleicher
Interview with Nathan Gleicher, who joined Facebook as the head of cybersecurity policy in 2018.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Naomi Gleit
Interview with Naomi Gleit, who has served as Facebook's vice president of social good since 2005.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Donald Graham
Interview with Donald Graham, who served on Facebook's board of directors from 2009-2015.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Mike Hoefflinger
Interview with Mike Hoefflinger, the director of global business marketing at Facebook from 2009-2015.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Elizabeth Linder
Interview with Elizabeth Linder, a politics and government specialist at Facebook from 2008-2016.
December 3, 2018
Interview
David Madden
Interview with David Madden, founder of Phyandeeyar, an innovation lab that invests in local technology startups and trains entrepreneurs in Myanmar.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Roger McNamee
Interview with Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and the author of "Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist," due to be published in 2019.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Sandy Parakilas
Interview with Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook from 2011-2012.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Guy Rosen
Interview with Guy Rosen, who served as the vice president of product management at Facebook since 2013.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Max Schrems
Interview with Max Schrems, a privacy advocate who filed a complaint against Facebook with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Tim Sparapani
Interview with Tim Sparapani, the director of global public policy at Facebook from 2009-2011.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Kara Swisher
Interview with Kara Swisher, the executive editor of Recode, a technology website owned by Vox, where she also hosts the Recode Decode podcast.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Zeynep Tufekci
Interview with Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Sciences, a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and the author of "Twitter and Tear Gas."
December 3, 2018
Interview
Mark Warner
Interview with Mark R. Warner, a Democratic U.S. senator representing Virginia.
December 3, 2018
Interview
Clint Watts
Interview with Clint Watts, a distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University.
December 3, 2018

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Documentary

The Facebook Dilemma

A major, two-night investigation of the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

Interviews for this series were conducted by James Jacoby, Anya Bourg and Dana Priest and edited for the web by Phil Bennett, Callie Wiser and Priyanka Boghani.

 

Design and build for “The Facebook Dilemma” by Ly Chheng and Dan Nolan with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Videos edited by Elliott Choi, Jason Kashdan and Tim Meagher. Copy editing by Julie Wolf.

 

Additional assistance from Dale Cohen, Sarah Childress, Catherine Trautwein, Marcia Robiou, Miles Alvord, Nicole Einbinder, Jim Ferguson and Joey Mullin.

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