Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was finally forced to apologize after a long silence on the scandal of the "Analytica" scandal that broke through 50 million Facebook accounts, affecting US voter turnout, which has cost the company more than $ 40 billion so far. Congress.
The founder of "Facebook" in a statement published through the official page that his company does not deserve the service of its customers if it fails to take responsibility for protecting their data, stressing that the work is not to make any breakthroughs again, to be removed developers involved in the scandal.
This is the fourth apology in the history of Facebook company against the background of the scandal of penetrating the accounts of 50 million customers during the US election in 2016, by obtaining customer data through applications on the phone, and leaked to the campaign of US President Donald Trump for $ 16 million Through Cambridge Analytica, which works in the field of data collection and analysis to determine their own trends and interests.
Facebook suffered heavy losses after the announcement of its involvement in the scandal of the impact of the US presidential election, which amounted to 40 billion dollars so far, the share of "Mark Zuckerberg" alone more than 8 billion pounds, after the sale of a collective shareholders of the company, According to the newspaper "Daily Mail" British.
The company fell about 7 percent on Monday, and Mark - the world's eighth-richest - has nearly 400 million shares, equaling its stake now after the drop of nearly $ 70 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
Scapegoat
Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica had misused customer data. The company recently announced that its chief executive, Alexander Knicks, was suspended from the application program in which the company collected its data for the Trump campaign, while ANALYTICA confirmed that it obtained information from Facebook.
The company's CEO said that Facebook and Analytica had exploited their efforts and that they had been scapegoated in the scandal that shook the world for two weeks. He was shocked that the data company had told him from the start that the application was legal and did not constitute any breach of customers. BBC".
In an interview with Channel 4, the editor claimed that he was a local candidate to get confessions that the company ran the election campaign of the American president from London and contributed to winning a narrow margin of votes (40,000) Against the candidate "Hillary Clinton," a report that Trump tried to prevent him from broadcasting, according to the British "Daily Mail".
A Facebook spokesman responded to the report that the company had carried out illegal work, but the Observer newspaper confirmed that the incident had been known for more than two years.
Complete crime
The Facebook scandal began with the insistence of the 28-year-old youngster, Christopher Wiley, to reveal the intrusions, a former employee of the company, which is confirmed by several sources later, where he came, "Edward Snowden," technical specialist, who previously worked in the CIA , Who leaked a number of very dangerous US information in 2013, to confirm what the young man said.
The breakthroughs of Facebook have gone beyond the influence of the US election to direct voters in Britain to get out of the European Union by means of e-mail sent within two hours of sending them. There is no evidence of the crime. It is a complete crime, Facebook "account was stopped" Wiley "after revealing this information.
Calls for boycott and investigation
Facebook faces increasing pressure on more than one offering, with calls for boycotts and widespread deletion of the application, which was joined by Watsab founder Bryan Acton and purchased by Mark in 2014 for $ 19 million.
The biggest crackdown is Facebook's legal calls that may destroy the company's future. The US Congress, the European Parliament and the House of Commons have asked Facebook to respond to charges of selling user data. The Daily Mail has suggested that Mark is investigated before the US Congress.
The British Information Commissioner's Office, the country's main information protection body, is investigating the circumstances and is seeking to extract permits to inspect the company's headquarters.
Experts expect the light to emerge from the womb of the tragedy of the social networking site. Facebook is aware of its mistakes and is working to correct the course, but until that happens, it is impossible to predict how deep the earthquake of the scandal will be. , According to the newspaper "Daily Mail" British.