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What do you guys think of everything that's happening with Facebook?

My favorite is when a dealership salesperson is insisting that they are selling vehicles off their Facebook account (to avoid being blocked) but yet, cannot provide the GM a single example of selling one from FB

Facebook will not survive as MySpace died
Although cheaply priced, I couldn't agree more, the "attribution" numbers tend to suck, but those pimping it will lie and come up with some homemade metrics to try and prove its value.
 
Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...acebook-records-found-on-amazon-cloud-servers - whoopsie! how did those get there?

Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t.

Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ information is online, companies that control that information at every step still haven’t done enough to seal up private data.
 
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This is the biggest threat they face today and the reason they're asking for more regulation.
Once they started editorializing (removing white supremacists, etc) they took ownership of the content on the platform.
Now that they've done that, they have to editorialize all content, otherwise they are held responsible for it.

Here's the first bomb dropping:
https://9to5google.com/2019/04/04/jail-in-australia/
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter execs face jail in Australia if they fail to remove violent material
 
This is the biggest threat they face today and the reason they're asking for more regulation.
Once they started editorializing (removing white supremacists, etc) they took ownership of the content on the platform.
Now that they've done that, they have to editorialize all content, otherwise they are held responsible for it.

Here's the first bomb dropping:
https://9to5google.com/2019/04/04/jail-in-australia/
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter execs face jail in Australia if they fail to remove violent material


:ltbulb: Never thought about it like that. What a catch-22! Grabbing the :popcorn: