SAN FRANCISCO, Beijing, April 6, the early morning news, on the day that Facebook announced the "Cambridge Analytica" data scandal, 87 million (more than Facebook's 50 million previously acknowledged) users of the data were stolen the same day, Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that he is still the right person to run the world’s largest social networking company.
“The essence of life is to learn lessons from mistakes.” Zuckerberg said in a conference call with media reporters. “That's my responsibility, after all. I started this company and I run it. I'm responsible.'
The background of this unusual conference call held by Facebook is that the company is facing many pressures: the 'change' of advertisers, the anger of the legislature, and the improper handling of user data by the company in the 'Cambridge Analysis' scandal. Dissatisfaction.
These pressures began in mid-March, when Facebook acknowledged 'Cambridge analysis'. The London political data company improperly obtained personal information from more than 50 million users. At the time, it was reported that the 'Cambridge Analysis' used this data globally. The election and political campaign exerted an influence. On Wednesday, the incident continued to ferment. On that day, Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schropfer published a blog post saying that it was acquired by 'Cambridge Analysis'. The number of users is much larger than previously expected.
People in the industry pointed out that the core of this scandal is not Facebook’s improper handling of user information, nor does it depend on what people did. The key issue is that for Facebook, which has a monthly active user population of 2 billion people, Is the company still worthy of trust?
Zuckerberg has been clear, that is, he does not plan to resign from the Facebook CEO. So far, he did not dismiss anyone in this scandal, but claimed that Facebook is trying to willingly bear what has already happened. We are an idealistic, optimist company. 'He said, 'We now know that we didn't take enough steps before to focus on how to prevent abuse, and we didn’t think about how people would use these tools. To cause harm to others. '
He said that Facebook is now facing two central issues: 'First, can we control our system? Secondly, can we ensure that our system is not used to undermine democracy?'
If you want to solve these problems, Facebook will probably need to make some adjustments.
'It's not enough just to give people the opportunity to speak, we must also make sure that people do not use this opportunity to spread false information.' Zuckerberg said. He admitted that Facebook 'must ensure that everyone in our ecosystem will Protecting people's information.