The Fall of Facebook

A chronological timeline of the tech giant’s deceit in the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Here’s the #1 portal for corporations knowing everything about you. Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

When I began reading about the scandal involving Facebook and data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, I was curious to see if any publications had assembled a timeline of what had happened. That’s because, like many of you, I’m best able to understand a story when it’s explained chronologically. But I couldn’t find any news outlet that offered this sequential approach.

So, I made one myself. At its core, this is a story about how Facebook’s systematic refusal to police its own platform — even at the urging of its own employees — led to third party developers harvesting data from 87 million Americans, most without their consent.

I’m intentionally omitting any of my personal opinions and instead allowing the timeline of events, which includes sources and has been fact-checked, to speak for itself. Cybersecurity is a topic I’ve written about before, which you can check out in my ongoing series.

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