James Jacoby

Director, Producer, Correspondent

The Frontline Interview: Naomi Gleit
Interview with Naomi Gleit, who has served as Facebook's vice president of social good since 2005.
December 3, 2018
The Frontline Interview: Nathaniel Gleicher
Interview with Nathan Gleicher, who joined Facebook as the head of cybersecurity policy in 2018.
December 3, 2018
The Frontline Interview: Guy Rosen
Interview with Guy Rosen, who served as the vice president of product management at Facebook since 2013.
December 3, 2018
The Frontline 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
The Frontline Interview: Dipayan Ghosh
Interview with Dipayan Ghosh, privacy and public policy advisor at Facebook from 2015-2017.
December 3, 2018
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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.
October 29, 2018
Russian Disinformation on Facebook Targeted Ukraine Well Before the 2016 U.S. Election
Activists, officials and journalists from countries who reported abuses years earlier say Facebook took little or no action, according to an investigation for a new documentary.
October 28, 2018
"I Was Just Flabbergasted." Discovering Cambridge Analytica.
One evening during the 2016 presidential primaries, Sam Woolley wandered into a meet-up on digital political messaging in the basement of a New York City tech store. At the gathering, he says, a group of experts boasted of an uncanny ability to influence voters on social media. The name of their company: Cambridge Analytica.
March 21, 2018
Facebook Insider Says Warnings About Data Safety Went Unheeded By Executives
A manager who worked on privacy issues at Facebook told FRONTLINE that he raised red flags to company executives more than five years ago about the risks that users' personal data could be inappropriately obtained and misused, but said his warnings went unheeded.
March 20, 2018
54m
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War on the EPA
How Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy.
October 11, 2017
40m
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Out of Gitmo
With NPR, a report on the struggle over freeing prisoners once deemed international terrorists.
February 21, 2017
54m
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Policing the Police
A rare look inside a troubled police department being forced to reform.
June 28, 2016