Zuckerberg Snubs U.K. Lawmakers' Invite to Explain Data Scandal

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Mark Zuckerberg has rejected an invite from the British Parliament to appear before lawmakers to answer questions over the data-handling scandal that has engulfed Facebook and sent its share price plummeting. The billionaire was summoned to appear before a committee to explain the data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, but a letter to members of parliament on Tuesday delivered the news that Zuckerberg himself won’t be attending. The letter from Facebook U.K.’s head of public policy told lawmakers that Zuckerberg has requested that one of his deputies appears before the committee in his place, suggesting Chief Technology Officer Mike Shroepfer or Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, and listed what the company is doing to make sure the Cambridge Analytica scandal is never repeated. The spokesperson wrote: “Facebook fully recognizes the level of public and Parliamentary interest in these issues and support your belief that these issues must be addressed at the most senior levels of the company by those in an authoritative position to answer your questions. As such, Mr. Zuckerberg has personally asked one of his deputies to make themselves available to give evidence in person to the committee.”

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[ret5hd]

1. .

[HopeAgain]

2. Zuckerberg is no different than Trump

Ego driven, self-interested and greedy. Just like Trump, he has screwed a lot of people along the way.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Power and money and fame inevitably corrupt.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

4. Entitled Asshole, and

a Fucking Coward.

[Botany]

5. Dear Mark Z., .. Without Facebook, we wouldnt have won, said Theresa Hong, a member of ...

..... the digital arm of Trump’s presidential campaign.


Eat shit and die, Mark. The Trump campaign had people who were facebook employees
working full time at Trump's HQ and getting data and information from Cambridge
Analytica and wikileaks and they helped to weaponize that data/information for
the Trump campaign. Facebook was also being used by the Russians to data mine
information on Americans for Cambridge Analytica.

BTW you cashed the checks too. This isn't just about apps motherfucker.

Does the name Theresa Hong ring a bell, Mark?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029566031

FB, YouTube, Twitter, Cambridge Analytica, Russia, the GOP & Trump.

In an online BBC video, Theresa Hong, the Donald Trump campaign’s Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. She’s revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trump’s behalf, ran its operations out of the same offices where the Trump campaign itself was plotting its paid Facebook ad strategy. But the truly shocking revelation is who else she admits was in the building, which Trump’s people called “Project Alamo.”


The BBC interviewer asks Hong, “What were Facebook and Google and YouTube people actually doing here? Why were they here?” She responds by saying “They were helping us, you know. They were basically our hands-on partners as far as being able to utilize the platform as effectively as possible.” Shen then bragged “When you’re pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, you’re going to get white glove treatment. So they would send people, you know, representatives to the Project Alamo to ensure that all our needs were being met.” Watch the shocking BBC video below

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-is-what-facebook-powered-election-cheating-looks-like.html

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Is What Facebook-Powered Election Cheating Looks Like

“Without Facebook, we wouldn’t have won,” said Theresa Hong, a member of the digital arm of Trump’s presidential campaign, in an interview with the BBC last year when giving a tour of Trump’s digital campaign headquarters, dubbed Project Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas. Alamo was the name of the dataset used by Cambridge Analytica, according to Hong, who said Cambridge Analytica shared offices with the Trump campaign’s digital efforts and confirmed Facebook and Google sent liaisons to their offices to help Trump’s campaign. Hong showed the BBC how Cambridge Analytica could identify if, say, it was targeting a working mother concerned about childcare: She probably wouldn’t be interested in “a war ridden destructive ad” popping up in her Facebook app, but might respond to something more “warm and fuzzy,” lacking Trump’s voice, Hong said. “It wasn’t uncommon to have about 35 to 45 thousand iterations of these types of ads everyday.”

[sdfernando]

7. This will not go well for zuck

hope he isn't planning on visiting the UK anytime soon...or really anytime ever again. He will be hauled up before Parliament the minute he sets foot on British soil...or he will be persona non grata and never allowed in the country. These Brits mean business....wish I could say the same about our government.

[Bengus81]

8. Down 33 bucks since Jan 31,there goes $13.2+ BILLION of his stock value

I don't think this will ever recover to it's 193.00 high a couple of months ago. But...Zuck will still have enough to somehow get by.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Zuck not ready for prime time

Hiding from the consequences of the actions of his company.

He could be kicked out from the boardroom at some point, or lose bigly money. Billions.

The bigger they come, the harder they fall.

Remember Worldcom, Enron, MySpace and countless other tech names from 2000

It can happen here

[Bengus81]

11. Yup...he does NOT hold enough shares for controlling interest in FarceCROOK..........

I think his stake is only in the 24% range or maybe a little higher but no where near 51%. He could be voted out,it's a simple as that.

[MicaelS]

10. Coward.

He's afraid of appearing anywhere he can't control things. Plus, he would actually have to dress up for once. I hope our Congress supoenas his ass.

[snort]

12. Zuck Fuckerberg