The reality is that putting the blame on Facebook instead of Cambridge Analytica is more of a stretch than people think. Remember Cambridge Analytica's main fo

The reality is that putting the blame on Facebook instead of Cambridge Analytica is more of a stretch than people think. Remember Cambridge Analytica's main founder, Aleksandr Kogan, was working at the psychology department of Cambridge University. Facebook had program to allow academic use of user data which it granted to Kogan. Kogan subsequently violated stipulations that this data not be used for commercial and political access, and upon learning of this Facebook terminated his access to this data and demanded that he delete the data that he already collected. I'm not sure how one comes away from this thinking that Facebook is the culprit here. Sure, you can say that they were naive to believe in the integrity academics. But at no point did they willingly violate their user privacy policies, and when they discovered that a third party was abusing data they terminated access.