Thread by @carolecadwalla

I’ve been tweeting about latest Facebook breach because it seems to show it’s learned nothing since Cambridge Analytica. It’s refused to answer basic press inquiries. And now, it’s pulled out rest of Cambridge Analytica playbook. This isn’t FB’s fault. It’s ‘malicious actors’
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Facebook failed to keep safe the data of half a billion people. But this isn’t a data breach, it’s ‘scraping’. Which is *exactly* how Facebook responded to me & @_EmmaGH in 2018.
That wasn’t a data breach either. Until it was.
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This is the playbook. Ignore, minimise, deflect, re-frame. Here’s the response of @intidc, an actual (ethical) hacker who reported this *exact security flaw* in 2017. Instead of fixing the breach, Facebook blamed it on its users.
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This isn’t just chutzpah or an Orwellian disregard for language. This is high high stakes. @ashk4n is the former CTO of the FTC - the body which fined Facebook a record $5bn - & he points out the timing of this breach looks really really bad for Facebook
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https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/1379595482175954946

And this was the Irish DPC yesterday - Facebook’s regulator - in Europe. It hadn’t been able to get any sort of a straight answer from Facebook. Yet if Facebook failed to notify it of a breach - which this suggests - it risks a fine of up to 4% of Facebook’s global turnover
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It took Facebook 5 days to publish this. It’s refusing to even acknowledge journalists’s qs. It doesn’t appear to be cooperating with the regulator. And these are not ‘facts’. This is a high-stakes PR op that blames Facebook’s users for their shocking failure to protect them