Five days after details about Cambridge Analytica were made public, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, broke his silence on his company’s role in the data breach.
Minutes after posting a statement on Facebook, he spoke with The New York Times.
On today’s episode:
• Kevin Roose, a business columnist for The Times.
Background reading:
• Facebook, in crisis over the Cambridge Analytica data breach, vows to bolster security and privacy.
• A transcript of Mr. Zuckerberg’s conversation with Mr. Roose and another Times reporter, Sheera Frenkel.
I’m coming much closer to calling it quits on Facebook. I’ve outlined a plan for extracting myself and just need to begin implementation. I’ve even got a potential scalable plan for family/friends who would like to leave as well.
I actually feel like my remaining on the platform is subsidizing keeping many third world people on it, and the way Facebook has been and is operating in many other countries it becomes a moral issue which is forcing me to actively seek to leave it.
My Facebook account has lay dormant for a year or so. I feel that leaving would not be so hard, however I really want a workable archive. I really like what Jonathon LaCour did. Just feel that all that parsing is Generation 1 and that is not me. I wonder if this is an #IndieWeb opportunity? To develop a meaningful extraction plan that includes keeping a working archive?
I am also mindful that simply leaving is only one part of the puzzle.
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Your comments are well done and direct.