Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work. (vox.com)
«It's the willful spread of fake news that Facebook enables; - it's the willful disregard for basic privacy; - it's the willful disregard for the 2011 consent decree that Facebook agreed to; - it's the fact that Facebook is five days into this and Zuckerberg doesn't think it's important enough to speak to the media or even his own employees; - it's this ridiculous notion that Facebook is something other than a for - profit corporation. (eweek.com)
The increasing spread of fake news is one of the main justifications MEPs give for supporting the Commission's plan to introduce an extra copyright for news sites. (theparliamentmagazine.eu)