Zuck apologizes for Cambridge Analytica scandal with full-page print ad

TechCruch ^ | March 25, 2018 | Jordan Crook

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken out a full page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and six UK papers today to apologize Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter.

The ad starts in bold letters, saying:

“We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.”

The ad was published on Sunday, following Zuck’s first public acknowledgement of the issue on Facebook and a subsequent media tour earlier this week.

Congress has also put Mark Zuckerberg on notice to potentially come speak with them, with Senator Kennedy of Louisiana encouraging Zuck to “do the common sense thing and roll up his sleeves and take a meaningful amount of time talking to [them].”

For those of you still unsure what’s going on with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, i you can see a full play-by-play here.

Here’s the full transcript from the print ad:

We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.

You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. This was a breach of trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time. We’re now taking steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

We’ve already stopped apps like this from getting so much information. Now we’re limiting the data apps get when you sign in using Facebook.

We’re also investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.

Finally, we’ll remind you of which apps you’ve given access to your information — so you can shut off the ones you don’t want anymore.

Thank you for believing in this community. I promise to do better for you.

Mark Zuckerberg

[TaxPayer2000]

[DownInFlames]

Then why does he sell it.

[Seruzawa]

Few things have exposed the utter hypocrisy of the Left than this phony data scandal.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, but helping Obama do the same thing was cool?

[dfwgator]

I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook, it will go the way of MySpace, and something else will come up and replace it.

[Arm_Bears]

So—It’s all better now?

[Sacajaweau]

How about a fine....big enough to pay for the wall.

And folks are listening dude...You're going to start limiting free speech. And your criteria would be?? Anyone saying anything demeaning about Hillary or any other Dem??

[bkopto]

HAHA. He’s scrambling to protect his rice bowl. I hope he loses it.

[EagleUSA]

Apologizes?? What he should have admitted to was his pandering to the DemocRATS by providing data to them -— so they would stay off his back and not regulate his business.

Now he has flipped. Leftist scumbag.

[DouglasKC]

lol..Facebook has been doing this nearly since it’s inception. Just a hint of conservatives benefiting is enough for the faux outrage of the left to call for change.

[FreedomPoster]

To anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together, the hypocrisy on this is monumental.

[Jane Long]

Yep...it’s one of those ‘I’m SO SORRY that I got caught’ apologies.

FUMZ

[Hostage]

Zuck:

Ok, ok, so I got caught ... but please don’t take me down from my elite perch ... PLEASE! Because I love hobnobbing with the global elite.

I mean it’s my calling, SWEAR! I know I was destined to be an Elite, it’s in my DNA, and I am so good at being an Elite. I am such a good Elite, Just Ask Me! and I’ll tell you how good and elite I am!

[ichabod1]

I can’t bring myself to look at it. #deletefacebook

[clintonh8r]

I hope we’ve seen peak FB. And peak Zuck for that matter....

[Vaduz]

I promise to do better for you = You won’t find out next time

[Bogie]

Yeah! There’s the irony of it all.

[Nateman]

Selling data is their business model. Either they are going to lose a lot more money or this ad is bogus.

[Bogie]

So, they can go back to mining personal information from "The Lives Of Others" now.

Americans will forget in a few days.

[grania]

I think this is the beginning of the end for FB

I don't think so. Zuckerberg seems to really believe in FB, but has way too much faith in users to be smart and advertisers to be responsible. Remember when FB was down (is it a year ago yet?) and we were all going crazy? FB hosted a Free Republic site, which wasn't skewed with liberal bias. The site still functions.

I just wish he had said that even if there were Russia or chaos sponsored ads, FB users most often approached them with skepticism and a search for what's true, unless they already supported the view being presented.