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Scrutiny falls on Facebook following reports of data harvesting for Trump campaign

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Following The Guardian breaking this story over the weekend, concern has grown over how this happened and why nothing was done earlier to rectify the issue. #DeleteFacebook is trending with many users understandably angry over how their data was allegedly harvested and used to influence political elections.


What do you think should be done, firstly to rectify this issue and secondly to prevent things like this happening in future?
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    100% in agreenace. I think what people forget sometimes too, is that Facebook is a Business. Just as Alex stated, Facebooks value is in user data. We all know this, and accept it. 


    The issue is the media, like you said. On top of that, it is society. If Facebook shut down tomorrow, so many people would be outraged. If Facebook changed their system to stop allowing data to be on there, just a name, picture and post, it would become Twitter, and many people would stop using it. People use it for the data they agree to share, but when the data is shared, they do not like it.


    #MadWorld.
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    100% in agreenace. I think what people forget sometimes too, is that Facebook is a Business. Just as Alex stated, Facebooks value is in user data. We all know this, and accept it. 


    The issue is the media, like you said. On top of that, it is society. If Facebook shut down tomorrow, so many people would be outraged. If Facebook changed their system to stop allowing data to be on there, just a name, picture and post, it would become Twitter, and many people would stop using it. People use it for the data they agree to share, but when the data is shared, they do not like it.


    #MadWorld.
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