Zuck apologizes for Cambridge Analytica scandal with full-page print ad

TechCruch ^ | March 25, 2018 | Jordan Crook

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken out a full page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and six UK papers today to apologize Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter.

The ad starts in bold letters, saying:

“We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.”

The ad was published on Sunday, following Zuck’s first public acknowledgement of the issue on Facebook and a subsequent media tour earlier this week.

Congress has also put Mark Zuckerberg on notice to potentially come speak with them, with Senator Kennedy of Louisiana encouraging Zuck to “do the common sense thing and roll up his sleeves and take a meaningful amount of time talking to [them].”

For those of you still unsure what’s going on with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, i you can see a full play-by-play here.

Here’s the full transcript from the print ad:

We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.

You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. This was a breach of trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time. We’re now taking steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

We’ve already stopped apps like this from getting so much information. Now we’re limiting the data apps get when you sign in using Facebook.

We’re also investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.

Finally, we’ll remind you of which apps you’ve given access to your information — so you can shut off the ones you don’t want anymore.

Thank you for believing in this community. I promise to do better for you.

Mark Zuckerberg

[SgtHooper]

The only fools in this situation are the Facebook users. Zuck knows they are mostly unaware and at least light in the brains department.

[Vince Ferrer]

Is there anything more pathetic than a progressive who fell out of favor with progressives, trying to get back into their good graces? (Looking at you too, Jennifer Lawrence)

[Ciaphas Cain]

I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook, it will go the way of MySpace, and something else will come up and replace it.

"Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna be back on the web. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before. There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: 'Why don't we try him again on an inexpensive server. People's memories aren't too long.' And you know, in a way, he'll be right. Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a website. Maybe not the best page rank or, you know, top ten on Google. Maybe not even in the top ten thousand. But you'll have a site. It just won't be quite the same as it was before. Then a couple of new college kids will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: 'Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that? Oh by the way, have you seen, a, Lazamataz? I think he's the greatest thing since Netscape.'"

Followed by Zuckerberg standing on the hotel balcony screaming "COME BACK!!! COME BACK!!!!" as the users drive off into the night.

[windsorknot]

Friends have been encouraging me to join Facebook. The Zuck has made up my mind. Nyet.

[Cats Pajamas]

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[Secret Agent Man]

Snowflake emotive meaning nothing.

[EVO X]

This story makes me wonder if they might have a HIPPA and FERPA problem.

[shanover]

FU Zuck!

That's my analysis.

[Lyndal]

Cambridge did that same thing that the Obama campaign did in 2012, only on a smaller scale.