--- title: Silicon Valley Hides Facebook, Russia Diss in Credits description: Silicon Valley made a sneaky and pointed barb towards social media giant Facebook in the opening credits of their new season. canonical: https://time.com/5215874/silicon-valley-facebook-diss-easter-egg/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-26T19:39:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:18.315Z og:title: How Silicon Valley Hid a Facebook Diss on the Show og:description: Blink and you might miss it og:url: https://time.com/5215874/silicon-valley-facebook-diss-easter-egg/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6466c84dbc99f744/69892c050a4a221fa29d23a7/silicon-valley-facebook-diss-easter-egg1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of HBO's "Silicon Valley" 2nd Season - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Silicon Valley Hid a Facebook Diss on the Show twitter:description: Blink and you might miss it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6466c84dbc99f744/69892c050a4a221fa29d23a7/silicon-valley-facebook-diss-easter-egg1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the Sneaky Facebook Diss That You Might Have Missed on _Silicon Valley_ ## Video: Mark Zuckerberg Just Revealed Steps Facebook Is Taking to Address the Cambridge Analytica Crisis [Watch (HLS stream): Mark Zuckerberg Just Revealed Steps Facebook Is Taking to Address the Cambridge Analytica Crisis](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DfdjfJQ4.m3u8) (1:27)  _Published 2018-03-21. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally addressed the growing crisis confronting his company over how Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data collected by 50 million users without their direct consent in its work for Trump’s campaign_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 26, 2018 7:39 PM UTC  HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 02: Martin Starr, Thomas Middleditch and Kumail Nanjiani arrive for the premiere of HBO's "Silicon Valley" 2nd Season - Arrivals at the El Capitan Theatre on April 2, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images) HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 02: Martin Starr, Thomas Middleditch and Kumail Nanjiani arrive for the premiere of HBO's "Silicon Valley" 2nd Season - Arrivals at the El Capitan Theatre on April 2, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)Gabriel Olsen—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 26, 2018 7:39 PM UTC While [Facebook](http://time.com/5215274/facebook-messenger-android-call-text-message-data/) weathers backlash surrounding the [Cambridge Analytica scandal](http://time.com/5205314/facebook-cambridge-analytica-breach/) and a [#DeleteFacebook campaign](http://time.com/5210799/mark-zuckerberg-addresses-delete-facebook-campaign-after-cambridge-analytica/), it also earned a sly diss from tech satire series [_Silicon Valley_](http://time.com/48931/hbos-silicon-valley-is-as-silly-and-mundane-as-the-real-one/), which hid a pointed Easter egg about the social media giant in the opening credits of it season 5 premiere. As the show begins, the Facebook logo appears on the screen, but flips from English to Cyrillic, a dig at [Facebook’s widespread Russia-linked ads during the 2016 presidential election](http://time.com/4966438/facebook-russia-linked-ads-election/). While the Cyrillic letters don’t actually spell Facebook, the sequence bears a striking similarity to the English spelling of Facebook. 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