The dominos begin fallingThe Cambridge Analytica scandal, "the story of how whistleblower Christopher Wylie built media mogul Steve Bannon’s 'psychological warfare tool' by harvesting millions of people’s Facebook profiles", marked a sea change for Facebook's image. Facebook has consistently blamed Aleksandr Kogan for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, admitting their own culpability for lapse governance but not for knowing what was actually taking place. The claims center on an alleged meeting between Facebook board member Marc Andreessen and the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, two years before he came forward to the press. "Individuals who attended the meeting with Wylie and Andreessen claim it was set up to learn what Cambridge Analytica was doing with Facebook’s data and how technologists could work to 'fix' it." The honeymoon we have all enjoyed with social media is now so badly tarnished it dominates the headlines week after week.

Source: Forbes March 16, 2019 23:55 UTC