NYT columnist David Brooks 'draws a second salary from a project funded by Facebook'

New York Times columnist David Brooks is on the payroll of a project funded by Facebook and has written articles peddling its cause, a report said Thursday. It does reference his work with PBS, NPR and NBC and his teaching at Yale University In September 2019 he wrote Brooks is named as the chair of Weave on its website; Brooks has continued to promote Weave in his columns, writing about one of the group's events and calling those who attended 'some of the most compelling people I’ve ever met' Wolfe said that her news website will be a place where she will 'tell stories' that 'possibly chill you to the bone' The news comes on the back a turbulent few months for The New York Times. NYT is ridiculed for 'totally shameless' job ad for an opinion editor with a 'spine of steel' after a series of resignations over Republican Senator Tom Cotton's 'send in the troops' op-ed The New York Times has been criticized on Twitter over a job advert seeking an opinion editor with a 'spine of steel', months after three editors were forced out of the newspaper for promoting unpopular debate. Pictured: The New York Times building in Manhattan Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon was among those to point out the irony of the job posting, calling it 'totally shameless' and noting that the three people who left their posts at the newspaper were guilty of 'doing this exact thing' The Times' former editorial page editor, James Bennet, resigned on June 7, 2020 after more than 1,000 staffers signed a letter in protest of his publication on an opinion piece written by U.S. Ungar-Sargon highlighted The Time's commitment - detailed in the job advert - to 'promote the most important and provocative debate across a range of subjects', saying that the editors had been pushed out of the publication for 'this exact thing; Posted on Wednesday, the job advert said the ideal candidate would someone with a 'sense of humor and a spine of steel, a confident point of view and an open mind, an appetite for risk and exacting standards for excellence in writing and visual presentation' 'The NYT literally fired James Bennet for doing this exact thing.