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    Zuckerberg Offers the Bare Minimum on the Cambridge Analytica Mess

    Facebook's head has finally announced what his company is going to do about the situation.
    by Alexis C. Madrigal Mar 21, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    Two years and four months after Facebook found out that Cambridge Analytica might have illicitly pulled user data from its platform, and five days after the latest round of stories about the political consultancy’s electioneering, Mark Zuckerberg finally made a statement about the situation.

    Despite Facebook previously contesting that it was a “data breach,” Zuckerberg offered up the exact solutions one might to a breach: assurances, small technical fixes, and some procedural improvements. Among other changes, Facebook will investigate apps that pulled in large amounts of its data in the past and ban those who are found to have misused data. The company will also inform people whose data has been misused, including those in the dataset that got passed

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