Karma is one big beautiful bitch! Whats even more glorious is that its the same people that they pitted against the 2A community and Trump that are leaving. So much for their target audience. MAGA!
People are jumping on Twitter to announce their breakup with Facebook.
The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending on Monday after the New York Times reported this weekend that the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump’s successful 2016 bid for the presidency.
Twitter was littered with users sharing the hashtag:
Hey everyone #DeleteFacebook, it won’t kill you. I did it 3 years ago and am surprisingly still alive and God forbid, happy! Just do it.
— Max ⚡ Power ? (@Max_Power_) March 19, 2018
I just deleted too! #DeleteFacebook https://t.co/EPiTiBbqO3
— Change the Message (@ChangetheMsg) March 19, 2018
#DeleteFacebook Traitors turned Americans against each other and threw the election.
— SuzBrint (@suecab) March 19, 2018
Facebook is under fire after data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica received $15 million from Republican donor Robert Mercer ahead of the 2014 midterm elections to pay Cambridge Professor Aleksandr Kogan for data on millions of users. Kogan had paid about 270,000 people to fill out a survey built on Facebook’s developer tools — allowing him to pull information on “liked” pages, as well as look at the “friends” of users that opted into his app. The data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target voters with specific personality profiles.
Pulling that information was kosher, but selling it to a third-party, like Cambridge Analytica, violated Facebook’s terms of service. Facebook has since tightened its agreement, barring app developers from looking at friends’ profiles. Facebook said on Saturday that “Kogan lied to us” by passing data collected from his app to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook said that when it learned of the violation in 2015, it removed Kogan’s app.
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But for many users, the news highlighted the danger of Facebook housing the personal information of billions of users. Several app developers told TheWrap there is still little stopping them from violating Facebook’s terms of service and selling its data.
And even before the Cambridge Analytica news, Facebook has been grappling…