Author: Bill Achola / Source: The Next Web
Mark Zuckerberg has been immensely successful in capturing the popular imagination of budding and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. Mr. Zuckerberg has become the quintessential image of what a successful entrepreneur can accomplish.
The stories about the dreary Harvard dorm room coding sessions to his now famous grey sweatshirt attire, Zuckerberg personifies what a combination of ambition and talent can achieve.
Though Facebook has been marred with plenty of controversies before, none of them have caused the level of furor that the latest Cambridge Analytica controversy generated.
As per the latest figures, at least 50 million Facebook users have had their personal data harvested. To make matters worse, it is believed that this aided Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign through the spread of fake news and elaborate propaganda.
Mark Zuckerberg responded in an earnest manner. On Anderson Cooper 360, he accepted that Facebook has a basic responsibility to protect the data of its users.
In a public post on Facebook, Zuckerberg further clarified the remorse he feels about “the breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us”.
In addition to his Facebook post, there was also a New York Times interview where he expresses similar repentance. While these are good and encouraging first steps, he’s still faced mounting criticism for having…
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