Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to dominate the news week, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint session of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Tuesday, and then before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday. In addition to unleashing a torrent of Zuckerberg Memes and leading to continued hand-wringing about how Facebook lets advertisers use customers’ … Read More
First there was fake news, state-sponsored Russian trolls, and now #DeleteFacebook is trending. The chaos started over the weekend when the NY Times published a piece about Cambridge Analytica, a firm used by both the Trump Campaign and the Brexit Leave Campaign in 2016. Whistleblowers from within the company claim that the firm harvested data from more than 50 million … Read More
