Today Facebook announced it has suspended Cambridge Analytica from its platform. In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump campaign manager credited Facebook and Cambridge Analytica with helping Trump win. Facebook, which supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, is not going to "make the same mistake" in 2020.
In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.
Facebook's decision is being seen at a direct attack on Trump, as the company had recently cracked down on conservatives, and even changed it algorithm to suppress conservative news sites. Read, "Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals"
Facebook, which last week asked users whether it should allow child pornography, is cracking down on conservatives and Christians, even going so far as to issue a "strike" against a Christian comedy site, the Babylon Bee.
Yesterday Facebook's autofill suggestion included sexual content involving children. Read, "Facebook Apologizes for Auto-Suggesting Child-Porn Videos"
Last week Facebook was busted for asking users: "In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14 year old girl for sexual pictures."
Facebook has its priorities in order, if one understand what those priorities are.