Posted on 04/07/2018 6:50:46 AM PDT by John Semmens
Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, publicly admitted that "our company's invasion of our clients' privacy probably rates a score of 10 out of 10 for being as complete a betrayal as possible." Despite this colossal failure, Sandberg insisted that CEO Mark "Zuckerberg's public apology ought to be penance enough. Look, we're with the good guys. We allowed President Obama to use our massive data to get reelected in 2012. Obviously, in hindsight, the Cambridge Analytica deal was a mistake."
"In our defense, the amount of data we sold to Cambridge Analytica was tiny compared to what we freely gave to Obama," Sandberg explained. "With all the polls showing Hillary with a commanding lead we thought we could make a buck without damaging her election chances. It turned out we were wrong, but we weren't the only ones. Everybody was sure she would win in a landslide. It isn't fair to make us the scapegoat for the unforeseen outcome of the 2016 election."
Sandberg insisted "we are going the extra mile to try to make up for the damage. We already scan the contents of every user's posts and messages looking for anti-social attitudes. For example, we already flag any user posts of articles from Breitbart as 'intentionally misleading.' And we're developing new algorithms that we believe will do a better job of excluding socially unacceptable content from being promulgated through our platform. So far, we've achieved a modicum of success. Pro-Trump messages have been reduced by nearly 50%. But we're not going to say we're satisfied. I think we can get a lot closer to 100% if we keep up our effort."
In the wake of this scandal, a new policy FaceBook is implementing is to charge a fee to subscribers who want to opt out of the company's data-driven exploitation of users' personal information. Sandberg likened this to "the kind of distinction you see in cable and satellite TV. If you don't want to be hounded by advertisers who know your weaknesses you're going to have to pay for that privilege like you would for HBO or Showtime."
As a prelude to his upcoming Congressional testimony, Zuckerberg has been assiduously deleting his FaceBook files. Unlike other users of the FaceBook platform, Zuckerberg is able to delete copies of those files that appear on any other FaceBook user's page. The CEO said he was "confident I'll be able to do a more complete job than Secretary Clinton was able to do with her emails. Unlike her, I am not technologically inept. I don't think I'll have to resort to busting up any devices with a hammer."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=311083.0
In this case -- it's 100% real/factual. It's impossible to make this crap up and have it be satire. The whole Fakebook (I refuse to use a "c" as the third letter in their name....) fiasco reveals the true purpose of "social media" and you've nailed it exactly.
I firmly believed before ever reading your post that Fakebook GAVE the Obama campaign far more data than Cambridge Analytica scraped from user accounts.
The uproar in all of this is that a Republican linked firm figured out how to do what the Obama campaign did, and used it for their own benefit. Period. Full Stop.
Another good one !
Great one, John!
Love the last paragraph, LOL!
In reality, Yucky Zucky is laughing all the way to the bank.
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