A compilation of Facebook’s worst data and privacy mishaps
The company is held to a high standard by regulators worldwide and is expected to maintain adequate privacy protections and to not abuse the power it holds. But, does it?
Facebook and Google showed the world’s brands they didn’t need to advertise.
These two startups came along and released their products without so much as an ad campaign or even a billboard.
Soon, these two brands were among the biggest and most admired — by the myopic — in the world.
Soon afterwards, though, Google realized it had to (pretend to) be more human. So it hired ad types to create ads that made humans feel positive things.
He’s being bold.
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The Google brand began to enjoy affection far and wide. Until, that is, many began to realize just how much the company has compromised their privacy.
Facebook hasn’t been quite so lucky. It’s mired in more stinky matter than a dung beetle.
From Cambridge Analytica to, oh, just about every transparently mendacious utterance from seemingly every Facebook executive, the Facebook brand is teetering toward Enron territory.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is nothing, though, if not obstinately obsessed with his own righteousness.
He thinks he can utter the words you want to hear — in a way that you know he doesn’t mean them — in order to buy time, encrypt everything on all his company’s platforms and maintain world power.
Oh, and then there’s that new cryptocurrency you’ve been desperate for Facebook to release.
But how can Facebook manage this in-between period? Well, it seems that what it suddenly needs are ad agencies. Lots of them.
As The Drum reports, Facebook is hiring not one, but five ad agencies to sprinkle a warm glow around the brand while Zuckerberg does his worst. I’m sorry, I mean devious best.
You’ll be wondering what all these five ad agencies will be doing — other than trying to make as much money as they can, while they can, from a brand that has pulverized the ad agency business.
Well, there’ll be one for the Facebook brand, one for the Messenger app, one for WhatsApp, one for Instagram and one, Accenture’s Droga5, for the “corporate narrative.”