The future of Facebook
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
What next for the social media giant? Jane Wakefield speaks to one former mentor of Mark Zuckerberg, and a British member of parliament about what changes Facebook needs to make after data scandals and concerns over its power.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily. I'm Jane Wakefield, and today we're asking what a former |
| 0:06.8 | Facebook insider makes of the continued fallout from the data scandals which have rocked the tech |
| 0:12.0 | giant and what he thinks chief executive Mark Zuckerberg needs to hear. |
| 0:17.0 | I believe that Mark is idealistic, but that his idealism includes an element of thinking he's given the world a gift and that we're not sufficiently appreciative. |
| 0:26.3 | We'll also get the view from one member of Parliament here in the UK who has put privacy at the heart of his agenda. |
| 0:33.4 | I think he believes in a world where everyone's data is, well, it's not open. |
| 0:38.0 | Actually, everyone's data belongs to him. |
| 0:39.4 | A connected world where all of the data belongs to Facebook and exists within a Facebook World Garden. |
| 0:44.3 | And that is, I think, quite a dangerous thing. |
| 0:47.8 | Zuckerberg, data and the ongoing debate over regulation. |
| 0:51.7 | Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:59.4 | Once upon a time, not so long ago, Facebook seemed like it had the world at its feet, |
| 1:04.7 | a social network of a billion-plus users, a business model that made lots and lots of money, and a leader, Mark Zuckerberg, |
| 1:13.3 | who was rumoured to have presidential ambitions. Then the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, |
| 1:18.4 | and the news that millions of people's data could have been harvested and used for political |
| 1:23.2 | marketing based on their Facebook likes led users, politicians and regulators to step back and |
| 1:30.8 | question what they thought they knew about the social network. Questions were asked about |
| 1:35.5 | whether Facebook's business model was to blame for the fact that a personality quiz taken by just |
| 1:40.8 | 270,000 people could go on to accumulate the data of 87 million. |
| 1:47.2 | Drawing back the covers has not been pretty and the ramifications have been felt throughout the industry. |
| 1:52.8 | This summer, Facebook was issued with a record $5 billion fine from the US Federal Trade Commission |
| 1:58.9 | for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal |
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