Blog #25: Why Facebook met?

Unresolved piracy, pedophilia videos ... Facebook faces face-to-face scandal, embarrassment and silence in the face of media outrage.

The story of the scandal of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is moving in a strange direction.

A British researcher who wrote the application for Facebook, which provides more than 200,000 players, collected information on players, along with their friends.

The researcher then provided unauthorized information to a company called Cambridge Analytica, which helped Donald Trump support data on the 2016 election.

The incident lasted for 2 years. Cambridge Analytica, from this data, tries to influence the psychology of voters. The amount of information provided up to 50 million.

After the scandal, Facebook is showing signs of losing control.

Last week, a series of pages such as The New York Times or The Guardian took the case to light. A group of US lawmakers called CEO Mark Zuckerberg to inquire about how Cambridge Analytica holds so much user data.

The British government also promised to investigate. On March 19, Facebook shares fell more than 10%. On March 20, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would investigate the case.

People do not care how Cambridge Analytica influences the election. The way they collect data (though Facebook has removed it) has left analysts concerned about the data security of the world's largest social network.

"This is the most surprising thing I've ever seen," Christopher Wylie, a former Facebook employee told The Guardian. "For 2 years, they have not completely checked whether the data is deleted. All you have to do is tick a box and send it. "

The ineffectiveness of Facebook is pervading the world. The case of Cambridge Analytica is just one of them. In March alone, people could name a series of Facebook scandals such as allowing the sending of violent incendiary information in Sri Lanka, a search bar that automatically suggests pornography, and a variety of moves related to it. political and other violence.

Resonate, these incidents paint a picture of a background where the crisis is growing faster than the speed of resolution.

Previously, Facebook struggled with the fight against fake news, removing content terrorist propaganda. However, the initial encouraging results were almost obliterated after a series of new scandals, mostly from Facebook being misused.

Usually, Facebook will quickly apologize to users for misinformation, promising to do better in the future.

However, in the Cambridge Analytica case, they again defended themselves, claiming the problem was solved the whole year. It made lawmakers, officials in many countries angry and opened the investigation. Scandal this time, so turn in another direction.

Facebook is at the heart of the post-break criticism of disclosing personal data of 50 million users.

On March 19, Facebook said it would hire a foreign team to investigate the incident. However, before they could even do that, the British Information Commission Office asked them to stop and ask for a permit to investigate on their own.

In other words, Facebook, in an attempt to correct itself, fell into the spotlight of the government. As of March 20, neither CEO Zuckerberg nor COO Sheryl Sandberg have made a formal statement.

The incident before, Facebook sorry very quickly. However, after a series of scandals in March, it seems that their top leaders have been "exhausted."