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> I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community. While this specific issue involving Cambridge Analytica should no longer happen with new apps
by andrewstellman 9y ago
> I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community. While this specific issue involving Cambridge Analytica should no longer happen with new apps today, that doesn't change what happened in the past. We will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward.
It's good that Facebook took steps to secure the platform against third parties crawling the graph and scraping millions of users' personal details, which is what Cambridge Analytica reportedly did, and which was not a violation of their policy at the time. Kudos.
So the consensus seems to be that what Cambridge Analytica did in the Brexit vote and the 2016 US Election was wrong. Now they won't be able to do the same thing via Facebook. But what's keeping Facebook themselves from doing the same thing that Cambridge Analytica did in future elections?
- chubasco 9y agoGreat point. We already know from the 2012 election and from the 2015 Podesta e-mails that Facebook doesn't exactly have a great record of political neutrality.
- WorldMaker 9y agoI'm also not convinced that it wasn't Facebook that did most of the work for CA. It was to Facebook's short term profit motive to provide the best micro-targeting ad tools to potential ad buyers. It's still in the realm of possibility that CA did get rid of all illicit data sources such as Kogan's dataset in 2015 and still had enough tools in that FB's ad sales platform team were more than happy to build for them for the easy short term profits.