Time For Facebook To Face The Music

Time For Facebook To Face The Music
Ever since The Guardian revealed that Cambridge Analytica hired an analytics team back in 2014 to provide profile data on roughly 50 million Facebook users, facebook has faced increasing pressure both from Washington and from Wall Street.

The Guardian posited that Cambridge Analytica’s efforts helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Although it has been pointed out that Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, admitted that the campaign was able to mine Facebook's data to Obama’s advantage, Democrats are in a panic to get Facebook to stop allowing non-Democratic-approved content. In February, Wired ran a story about the political pressure campaign against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Washington Takes Notice
On Tuesday GOP senator John Kennedy of Louisiana and Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota spoke on CNN about the scandal that has erupted over Facebook.

With all of that evidence, Klobuchar and Kennedy jointly said that it is time for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Klobuchar said, "I think he should explain to the American people how this happened, how many people were hurt, and most importantly, how they are going to fix it. because you just can't have 50 million Americans have their private data exposed without their permission."

Kennedy added, "Well, Facebook's a great company, but it's no longer a company; it's a country. That's how powerful it is, and its behavior lately has kind of been getting into the foothills of creepy. My interests are larger than Cambridge Analytica.

Kennedy  Continued, "I want to know if Facebook's been a good steward of our data; I want to talk with Facebook about the bargain we struck with Facebook; we know what we get: we get free access to the site. What does Facebook get? And finally, I want to explore how we preserve the good things about Facebook, and there are good things, but how we preserve the good things about Facebook while thwarting the bad things."

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