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By Electronic Frontier Foundation @ VentureBeat.com, March 19
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Facebook Is Passing the Buck
The company has finally responded to the Cambridge Analytica scandal—sort of.
By WILL OREMUS @ Slate.com, March 20, 5:50 pm
He concludes it sounds like they are afraid of legal consequences but it still seems to boggle his mind how they are just sort of sitting there doing the silence thing, disastrously losing customers and company value and not saying much. Which in itself implies they must be really scared by what lawyers or analysts are saying?
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 2:13am
This is what Oremus posted @ 1:59 am March 20:
The Real Scandal Isn’t What Cambridge Analytica Did, It’s what Facebook made possible.
By WILL OREMUS
Similar elsewhere in techland news; this is
the Wired.com headline story right now and also their #1 most popular story:
A HURRICANE FLATTENS FACEBOOK
By Nicholas Thompson & Fred Vogelstein, March 20, 11:24 am
Techcrunch.com:
Zuck and Sandberg go M.I.A. as Congress summons Facebook leadership by name
By Taylor Hatmaker, 8 hrs. ago
Mashable.com:
Competition challenges people to build a successor to Facebook
By Johnny Liu, 4 hrs. ago
and
Even the founder of WhatsApp thinks you should delete Facebook
and
Scientist at centre of Facebook scandal didn't think data would be used to target voters
and
I'm ready to part ways with Facebook, but can't imagine life without Instagram
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 2:33am
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 8:04pm
‘I’m not going to be bullied by Facebook.’ Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells his story.
Christopher Wylie, now regretful over his role in turning data on an estimated tens of millions of U.S. voters into a high-tech political persuasion machine, has delivered revelations that have triggered government investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, sent Facebook’s stock price plunging and pushed long-simmering privacy concerns to a boil.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 11:15pm
Facebook Made Him a Billionaire. Now He’s a Critic.
By Nellie Bowles @ NYTimes.com, MARCH 21, 2018
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 11:21pm
Steve Bannon at FT conference: I didn't know about Facebook data mining at Cambridge Analytica
By Mike Calia @ CNBC.com, 1 hr. ago.
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 6:47pm