Technology
Facebook hack: People are furious
- Facebook announced Friday that 30 million users were affected by a massive hack it first disclosed two weeks ago.
- The reaction — as perhaps expected — has been extremely negative across the internet.
- People are pointing to the irony of Facebook launching the Portal, its in-home hardware device, earlier this week and are calling for Zuckerberg to be fired.
Facebook announced Friday that 30 million users were affected by a massive hack it first disclosed two weeks ago.
Reactions across the internet have been extremely negative.
Some can’t believe that just this week, Facebook launched its in-home hardware product — Portal —which comes equipped with a camera and microphone.
The #deletefacebook hashtag has been a trend since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, but for some, Friday’s news was the last straw.
Others are pointing to the fact that Messenger Kids, its chat app for children, was called out for not being affected in the hack, raising questions about why we should put kids at risk of being on Facebook at all.
the fact that Facebook even has to SAY Messenger Kids wasn’t affected makes it clear that Kids on Facebook were at risk using Facebook.
still no really good answer from facebook as to why users should continue to trust Facebook with their data.
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 12, 2018
Some are just looking for an apology.
Worth noting that Facebook does not say sorry or apologize anywhere in that press release.
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) October 12, 2018
And with a hack this bad, some are calling for Zuckerberg to finally be fired over its long string of scandals — though given that Zuckerberg has a majority voting stake in the company, that’s extremely unlikely.
It is *amazing* to me that Zuckerberg hasn’t publicly fired a slew of people from Facebook’s leadership given all the egregiously bad and dumb shit that’s come to light over the past 3 years.
— Mat Honan (@mat) October 12, 2018
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