«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of
unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.
On Wednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ended days
of silence on the
social networking giant's latest controversy: Revelations that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica absconded with the data
of 50 million
unsuspecting Facebook
users, which Facebook knew about but kept secret.