It’s a bad time for Facebook, a period started several months ago with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The violation of user privacy through these third-party companies was the straw that broke the vessel, then came the GDPR, the new European standards to protect users, some statements from Apple and in a short time the social network for excellence has seen collapse “the ground from under the feet”.
Many users have left the platform, many others think to do it soon, others have created “fake” accounts that use only for logins and games but without publishing and disseminating their information.
Facebook was also a vehicle of Fake News conveyed by Russians who, according to some, led to the election victory of Donald Trump.
In short, it was a bit of a crisis and after the New York Times investigation, Mark Zuckerberg was questioned:
“Have you ever thought about closing Facebook?”
Surprisingly, the CEO answered Yes on several occasions.
We decided to close Facebook in 2010, then again a few months ago to defend the privacy of those involved in the escape of data by hackers.
The admission, in a sense, reveals how profound the Facebook crisis is, despite the huge turnover. At least Zuckerberg became aware that the situation got out of hand in some situations, but the social network is unlikely to close.
There is too much money at stake, investors and so on. A platform of this size, with such a number of members and staggering profits simply NOT be closed, even if you decide Zuckerberg.
At the end of October, revenues increased by 33% and Facebook advertising that also involves Instagram is increasingly used to promote its business. Zuckerberg admitted that there is a saturation of users, in the sense that the number of subscribers is not growing and rather than close the social network will be increasingly committed to protecting privacy in the future.
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