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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Facebook Portal

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• ... that a Facebook employee wrote a five-star review of Facebook Portal on Amazon, where he claimed that he was not a big Facebook user before buying the device?
  • ALT1:... that a suspected Facebook employee wrote a five-star review of Facebook Portal on Amazon, and claimed not to be a big Facebook user before buying the device?

• Reviewed: This is my second DYK nomination, and is exempt from QPQ.
• Comment: Source: On January 17, 2019, The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose posted on Twitter that Facebook Portal's Amazon product listing contained five-star reviews that appeared to have been written by Facebook employees, including a head of supply chain and strategic sourcing who claimed to have "historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user" before purchasing the Portal.

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5x expanded by Newslinger (talk). Self-nominated at 03:44, 19 June 2019 (UTC).

• New, long, interesting enough article; interesting hook. All looks good. Might want some more reliable sources than Mashable/Twitter/Hindustan Times but Engadget and CNET give everything important good credibility. Kingsif (talk) 16:36, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

• Hi, I came by to promote this, but the hook wording needs to be adjusted. It's only suspected that the reviewer was a Facebook employee. And why is the second half of the hook hooky? Are all Facebook employees users of Facebook? Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

  Hi Yoninah, thanks for looking over the hook. I've added ALT1, which includes the word "suspected" to be more accurate. As for the second half, Facebook employees use Workplace by Facebook, which includes Facebook Groups, to communicate internally within the company:

  • "from the beginning, Facebook employees collaborated and communicated on Facebook itself to get work done. Using Groups for projects and Messenger to chat helped the company adapt, grow and move fast. By using Facebook, our teams were able to communicate across offices, teams and projects, onboard new employees and find important information such as financial results or product updates."
  • "Then in 2011, one enterprising engineer had the idea of creating Facebook Groups accessible only to others inside the company. This was a new idea – and it changed everything for us. Almost overnight, Facebook moved from a closed culture of email threads and one-on-one conversations to a radically open culture of transparency. [...] So Facebook started using Facebook to build Facebook."
  • "Facebook also has groups on its site for almost every department so employees can instantly direct feedback or questions to 'the people who can do something about it,' Roglien says."

  Are the changes in ALT1 acceptable? ​— Newslinger talk 21:36, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

• @Newslinger: how about
• ALT1a: ... that a Facebook employee supposedly wrote a five-star review of Facebook Portal on Amazon, and claimed not to be a big Facebook user before buying the device? Yoninah (talk) 21:45, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Looks good to me. I've struck out the others. ​— Newslinger talk 21:47, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
• @Newslinger: thank you. But I wonder if it's more effective like this:
• ALT1b: ... that a five-star Amazon review of Facebook Portal, by a writer who claimed not to be a big Facebook user before buying the device, was traced to a Facebook employee? Yoninah (talk) 21:49, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Wow, I think ALT1b is the best one. The word "traced" works really well here. ​— Newslinger talk 21:53, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. Restoring tick for ALT1b per Kingsif's review. Yoninah (talk) 22:11, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your help with the final hook! ​— Newslinger talk 22:15, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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