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Marinara - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-sorry-in-full-page-newspaper-ads/ar-BBKFvHL?li=BBnb7Kz
Mar 25, 2018 5:59 PM
thatchernobylguy
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Marinara - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-sorry-in-full-page-newspaper-ads/ar-BBKFvHL?li=BBnb7Kz
SirBillington
You cannot block my schtyle!
Kinseeker69
"We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it." GO FUCK YOURSELF FACEBBOOK
inkican
Why didn't he just promote his own post on Facebook?
QuiGonWinn
"Haha ha ha. You can not block my shtyle!"
iloveboobiesofallshapes
Oh geez just sorry...fine (signs onto Facebook)
teabagthefool
Jail the twat for 25 years and make it a lesson to the big IT companies.
EmmersumBigguns
The next time he'll be more careful to not get caught
thatchernobylguy
This is true
GoofyAsDuck
So saying sorry makes it all ok does it?
CrotchRunner5000
This really needs more upvotes. Bless you
Jsupes
His shtoyle is unbeatable
Rivalyn
I hate to even clarify this, but this is basically the structure of a Canadian Sorry. It's not an apology, or if it is, it's not sincere.
williamvanauger
Can people cause enough of a fuss that he sees some prison time? Just once?
fastassford1
Just for once it would be nice to see someone with a trillion dollars in their bank got jail and not be able to buy their freedom,
ManAmIThirsty
I honestly don't know why he's apologizing. It's been happening for years now and we've known about it. It's nothing new.
abhorance
Yeah, but it was the Republicans who benefited from it this time, cant have that!
fastassford1
He's made most of his money selling people's info to anyone willing to pay for it.
skid665
He still is a DOUCHECANOE
MrDeadsr
He was one before all this and will remain one
skid665
True that
dickyvic
Didn't we all know this was happening with our Facebook data anyway?
EricFromAccounts
To be fair - South Park predicted a lot of weird shit
AlwaysUpvoteBrockIsARapist
Some call it predicted, others call it pointing out the obvious.
nohman64
Like Mecha-Streisand
lookingOknaked
That bitch is cray.
tardis63
This isn't really predicting anything. Insincere corporate apologies are rather common. Also, this episode was contemporaneous w/ BP spill
BMelz14
Very true, but I don't think this post is insinuating SouthPark predicted anything.
NotACanadian
Between them and Matt Groening I think they go to the same seer
emceedreidal
Whatever you're thinking of, Simpsons did it.
MornieAlantie
did Simpsons do the Simpsons did it episode?
Englewood123456789
This might be the best post I’ve seen in a long time.
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magicpocket
thatchernobylguy
Thank you, but I am only the messenger
jkf1911
Or at the very least a tribute...
Willizxy
No that's BP in south park
abbazabba2366
Thank you!
viciousbastard
Kinda scary how this is nowhere near top comment... imgur what happened to you?
moodytravesty
It was Analytica that exploited the original API, lied about deleting the data, then later shared it.
SpodgyTwoSugars
Our marketing department can solve every problem.
5338
Southpark did the same thing with the bp oil spill also poignant, at the time, did cthulu rise?
Irreal
At first I read it like he said sorry for the ads.
beerbatteredkush
I've always assumed everything I do on the internet the hosting site has access too. I don't see why people are shocked
LinearAlgebro
we've known campaigns have been doing this for a decade now
SJohnson23
Did you know they’d be selling that information on? Did you know they’d be feeding you “pop quizzes” to be narrow your demographic?
beerbatteredkush
Yes, it's their info once I give it to them.
justjoiningtoupvotethisonecomment
zuck' s low-key trying to tell them "get your news and media from newspapers!"
zarofca
Eff him and FB. who even uses it anymore?
Slidth
But they didn’t predict it would be Facebook, they were joking on BP after the spill, doesn’t count.
poot85
Like the Brits and Yanks are so stupid to fall for this type of manipulation...wait.
cogphn
It's hilarious because the people getting news from newspapers aren't the people most on facebook
thatchernobylguy
Actually, you are right, and it is hillarious. I deleted my facebook almost 10 years ago!
VanHugenDong
True I haven't gotten on fb in over three years, it's just a lot of unnecessary drama...(I live in a small town)
VanHugenDong
I only keep it around to log into apps easy instead of using my email and username
ozjuggler
So it's really targeted at Facebook's investors, not its users.
NarfButterslut
200 million Facebook users in the US. That’s pretty much everyone over the age of 12.
LiamNeesonOfficial
Not real numbers. I've got 8 accounts. Plus, you can buy verified US friends.
cogphn
I guess what we need to work out is active users - I have s facebook account but literally only use it to chat with my mom like once a month
NarfButterslut
All public info. In US and Canada: 184 million daily active users, 239 million monthly active users. Either way, it’s almost everyone.
vowofloudness
I'm not sure about that. 15% of their users are over 55, and almost half are over 35.
gewalt
whats that got to do with newspapers?
vowofloudness
Newspaper readership also skews old. https://imgur.com/IUoRy4B
Notme68
I'm almost 50, the in-laws are in their 70s, no newspapers for so long I can't remember when.
vowofloudness
That's true for most people because newspapers are lame and dying. But of the few who still do read them, the vast majority are old.
TheOtherBagdad
In some British and American newspapers because he didn’t steal info from anyone in other countries? gimme a break.
dafawkudoin
No but people other than Americans and British don’t matter right?
inderp
He didn't steal anything. People voluntarily gave him their info. He was negligent yes... But not a theif.
ThisMonkeysGoneToHeaven
Exactly. If anything Cambridge Analytica were the "thieves" as they deliberately misled people with their quiz app
ThisMonkeysGoneToHeaven
(To harvest the data and use it to influence elections)
NarfButterslut
Explain how he “stole” info. Did he corner 2 billion of us in a dark alley and force us to sign up for his free website and agree to its TOS
boodlebabe
Shhhh don’t talk about things you don’t understand
Leithoa
He complied shadow profiles on non-users who never consented to his tos, as well as hiding the intrusive nature of mobile apps.
NarfButterslut
That sounds shady. Any link?
Leithoa
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html or just google 'shadow profiles'
NarfButterslut
I deleted Google. #deleteGoogle