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Washington denounces Mark Zuckerberg for allowing the theft of data from millions of Facebook users


In 2016, the presidential campaign of donald trump hired the services of Cambridge Analyticsan opaque consultancy that stole the data of up to 87 million users of Facebook to create psychological profiles and bombard them with an avalanche of personalized propaganda, a major scandal of political manipulation that, after being uncovered in 2018, put the giant of the social media against the ropes. After four years of investigations, the District Attorney of the District of Columbia, where Washington is located, has denounced the executive director of the company, mark zuckerbergconsidering that he had a “direct participation” in the violation of users’ privacy.

“We are suing Mark Zuckerberg for his role in Facebook’s deceptive privacy practices and for his failure to protect the data of millions of users,” the attorney general said on Monday. karl racine, after filing the lawsuit against the technology tycoon. In this, the boss of Meta (the parent company that also owns Instagram Y WhatsApp) of contributing to the scandal with lax oversight of user data, as well as being responsible for Privacy described as misleading.

The prosecutor’s decision to include Zuckerberg in the lawsuit has been dragging on since 2018, when his request to personalize the accusation was dismissed as “almost bad faith” by the judge overseeing the case, who found that holding Facebook’s CEO accountable in the case did not bring “further relief” to the victims. However, Zuckerberg admitted personal responsibility for him in the filtration mass of that data. “The mistake was mine and I’m sorry,” she confessed before the United States Senate.

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The lawsuit points to the “unprecedented level of control” Zuckerberg has over Facebook. And it is that, unlike what happens in other large technology companies, the businessman controls almost 60% of the company’s voting shares and supervises all the big decisions.

Racine, who has described the case as “the largest consumer privacy scandal in the nation’s history,” is now back at it. His lawsuit has already been filed with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which will decide whether to point directly to one of the most influential men of the last two decades.

succession of scandals

After the scandal and malpractice of Cambridge Analytica, which used the extortion using prostitutes to manipulate political campaigns and support their clients, the firm ended up declaring bankruptcy. Forced, Facebook ended up reinforcing its privacy policies.

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However, last year another scandal broke out under the social giant’s nose when a former employee denounced, providing internal company documents, that profits are put before user safety or the psychological damage that platforms like Instagram cause in people. teenagers.

Cambridge Analytica was founded in 2013 by entrepreneur Robert Mercerone of the main financiers of ultra-conservative Republican politicians like Ted Cruz or Ben Carson, candidates whom he also supported with his tactics of disinformation. Although the firm ended up disappearing, since then the business of the war dirty on the internet has proliferated all over the world.


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