To start with, I'd like to draw your attention to this great piece from Engadget:
Let’s stop pretending Facebook cares
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The really great thing to come out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is that Facebook will now start doing that thing we were previously assured at every turn they were doing all along. And all it took was everyone finding out about the harvesting and sale of everyone's data to right-wing zealots like Steve Bannon for political power. Not Facebook finding out, because they already knew. For years. In fact, Facebook knew it so well, the company legally threatened Observer and NYT to prevent their reporting on it; to keep everyone else from finding out.
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When the The Guardian's 2015 article came out, Facebook pretended to care."And then," former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie told The Observer, "all they did was write a letter."
"But literally all I had to do was tick a box and sign it and send it back, and that was it," says Wylie. "Facebook made zero effort to get the data back."
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It wasn't until the NYT and The Observer prepared to publish their articles last Friday that Facebook decided to suspend Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie from the platform -- in a weak attempt to get ahead of the story. Even then, it was after Facebook made legal threats on both NYT and The Observer in an effort to silence both publications.
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It almost goes without saying that this whole sickening affair is more proof we didn't need that Facebook only cares when it is forced to. When the company decides it has a reputation problem. Which is the only problem they actually care about fixing. Other than that, it's all about creating more data dealer WMD's, like Facebook's impending patent to determine social class, which we can all assume will be abused until press who can afford to stand up to Facebook write an article about it.Yes, Cambridge Analytica have definitely done bad things, but Facebook is the problem. It's heartening to see that the media is increasingly seeing past the Cambridge Analytica trees to the out-of-control Facebook forest fire. Some of them have also started paying attention to Facebook's corrosive social and psychological effects, too.
Engadget is also keeping tabs on the class action lawsuit situion (up to four), #deleteFacebook picked up steam todayt when Elon Musk deleted Tesla's and SpaceX's Facebook pages, and Facebook's share price is down 13% for the week - although, if you've got nerves of steel, now is either a great time to take a short position on Facebook, or to pick up some FB stock cheap, in the hope that they can ride this shitstorm out... and good luck with that.
The Verge has a very detailed guide up to deleting Facebook, step-by-step (#deleteFacebook), and LifeHacker has a detailed guide to finding out everything that Facebook knows about you (spoiler alert: it's really, really not easy). GQ has just posted an article about how consumers can kill Facebook. Oh, and the notoriously feckless and ineffectual U.S. Congress has apparently smelled the cross-spectrum, bi-partisan outrage, and summoned Zuckerberg to the Hill so that he can lie to them again.
I've probably missed quite a bit. This story is now so big, and so hot, that a dozen new articles are being posted about it hourly. Make no mistake about it, folks; Facebook are in some real trouble, here.