The Zuckerberg empire is burning from all directions at once . Yes , the man who once called his users “ dumb fucks ” for entrusting him to be the steward of their personal information is in the thick of a fateful and very public reckoning . Take a moment to action this unexpected turn of events if you must .
The epitome of Silicon Valley hubris , Zuckerberg so extravagantly deserves to be forever clown on for the utter stiffness with which he tripped and continues to trip over his own dick . Since the scandal of Cambridge Analytica became international news , team of expensive attorney and public human relationship professionals have n’t stopped the World ’s Least magnetic CEO from poke himself a hole big enough to fit , say , a700 - acre waterfront estatein .
lawgiver , users , investor — all of them have very legitimate bones to pick with Facebook , such that it ’s have increasingly hard to keep track of just which entities are presently threatening to depose technical school ’s male child - king . For your wash room , we ’ve compile them all here , and will continue to update them as this data point fusking saga extend .
The Federal Trade Commission
Back in 2011 , Facebook settledchargeslaid out by the FTC that it had “ deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private , and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public . ” Part of fall that regulative hiccup affect Facebook agreeing not to do that again .
Something about Cambridge Analytica hold the data of around 50 million Facebook users made the FTC think Facebook welched on that agreement , and acting conductor Tom Pahl on Monday confirmed that the FTC had openedan investigationinto the company ’s practices .
People With Lawyers
Since the Cambridge Analytica malicious gossip break , Facebook ca n’t stop getting sued . Of this rash of lawsuits , three come from shareholderswho arguethe company made false or shoddy claim about thesafetyof its data that lead to public radioactive dust , which tank the time value of its stock — a matter shareholders be given to care about the price of . ( Facebook has lose an estimated$100 billionin the retiring week and a half . )
Afourthandfifthcame from non - shareholding Facebook users , alleging the party failed to protect their data despite knowing about Cambridge Analytica ’s acquisition of data on some 50 million users . Keep in mind , all five are class - activity that may eventually be link by additional plaintiffs .
The concluding suit ( so far ) wasfiledMonday by Cook County , Illinois , and calls Facebook “ the largest data mining cognitive process in creation . ”
Update : The Street reportsthree moreclass - activity suits;yet anotherwas file Tuesday afternoon , bringing the total bit to ten .
Update : We ’re up to thirteen now ! And one ( Zellmer v. Facebook Inc. ) comes from a complainant who “ does not have , and has never had , a Facebook history . ”
Update : FOURTEEN !
advertiser
Facebook , despite frequent and empty reference point to a “ community of interests , ” is at its core very much what Cook Country describes : a business that mine personal data to sell to advertiser . And unsurprisingly , it has corner an outsized destiny of the digital ad diligence . About60 percentof online ad tax revenue in the US is split between just two companies : Facebook and Google .
It may not be a sea change yet , but a number of fellowship have alreadypulled advertisingfrom Facebook . Those include the Mozilla Foundation , Pep Boys , Sonos , and German depository financial institution Commerzbank . Maybe they ’ll come back into the congregation at some later day of the month , and maybe not .
The Federal Election Commission
Two weeks ago the FEC proposednew foil rulesfor company like Facebook to succeed — something that until very recently Facebook fought very hard to beexemptfrom .
Congress and Parliament
As a recent and hugely cumbersome CNNinterviewreminded the American people , Mark Zuckerberg is fucking awful at public speaking . In most identical statement to CNN , Wired , and the New York Times , he dance around the musical theme of testifying before Congress — claim he might not be “ the individual at Facebook who [ would ] have the most knowledge . ” The last clip Facebook had the privilege of being grill by the Senate Judiciary Committee , that individual with the most knowledge was , it seems , companylawyer Colin Stretch .
At long last Mark ’s day has arrived , as , in lighting of late events , bothCongressandBritish Parliamentfeel he ’s eminently qualified to be raked over the coals . Zuckerberg has already decline to seem before Parliament . That august govern body helpfully suggested he testify viavideo link .
Android Users
Did you use Facebook on an Android phone ? Your claim and texts might have beenscrapedby a ship’s company you already hate !
Do n’t even vex , though . Facebook — a fellowship definitely not drag in in a scandal due to its manipulation of raw information — has say itwasn’t lookingat your chat .
Everyone Else
It ’s difficult to forecast how full-grown the # DeleteFacebook movement is , or how many user have really abandoned Zuckerberg ’s walled garden . What we can say , however , is thattrustin Facebook is gloomy , and the ship’s company ’s actions are n’t doing much to repair it .
What could have stimulate this ? Perhaps the revelation that a platform already sweep in outrage around its attempts to influence the 2016 election was relate to a firm that was munificently fund in part by Breitbart funderRobert Mercer , and patronized by political system linked to current Trump National Security Advisor - designateJohn Bolton , and Trump transition team memberPeter Thiel . ( Thiel secretly funded a cause that led to the failure of Gizmodo ’s former parent company , Gawker Media . )
Also potential : the company ’s decision to take outfull - page adsin 10 dissimilar newspapers that forewarned of extra data point - suck apps on its platform , all under the guise of an excuse . ( Way to adhere the landing place , guys . )
It could also be Zuckerberg ’s perfectly clinical Facebook station , and total inability to establish anything approaching a sincere excited connection while doing important CEO matter , like apologizing to 50 million multitude .
Who can say ! But the fact remains : Mark , people are feeling a little burned .
chastisement : A former version of this clause incorrectly identified the FEC as the “ Federal Election Committee . ” It is , in fact , the Federal Election Commission . We regret the fault .
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