Why Facebook Lost Users This Year

Why Facebook Lost Users This Year
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
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People are continuing to leave Facebook, as campaigns to “delete Facebook” gain momentum and global scrutiny expands in the wake of the social media and social networking company’s tumultuous year marred by privacy-related scandals.

The latest negative publicity came from a Dec. 18 report that revealed that Facebook had shared more personal user data with 150 other technology companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix, than it had previously disclosed, in a bid to exempt its business partners from normal privacy regulations.

Scandal After Scandal Surfaces

For years, Facebook had provided business partners the ability to read private messages from users and grant access to contact lists, often without consent, according to The New York Times.
Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
Bowen Xiao was a New York-based reporter at The Epoch Times. He covers national security, human trafficking and U.S. politics.
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