Facebook seems to have finally crossed a line. A story is slowly being pieced together, involving Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign, and a massive data breach that resulted in the personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users being harvested without permission. The controversy has infuriated many Facebook users, to the point that the hashtag #DeleteFacebook was trending on Twitter yesterday. Ignoring the irony of this particular hashtag trending on a rival social network that also gathers user data, the idea that simply deleting our Facebook profiles is going to solve anything is missing the point. It was never a secret that social media gleefully cash in our personal data like casino chips.

Source: Forbes March 20, 2018 16:41 UTC