Facebook

Facebook has been a hot topic in 2018, and it is time to reflect to its newest data policy changes in connection with their recent scandals. At the end of April, Facebook released new data policies regarding its users’ private information.

Recent accusations of data mishandling have been causing Facebook serious problems, regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandals and the 2016 Presidential Elections of the United States. Facebook has been accused of leaking its users’ data to third parties and the company has to answer some serious allegations about that.

In our latest articles we broadened out topics by introducing some of the most burning issues that are concerning online media about safety and security on social media, and this time we would like to add our own thoughts of the Facebook link to Cambridge Analytica scandal so far.

Today, we deviate from the usual topics and have a look at some of the Internet’s other burning problems: namely social media, its influential power and how people are reacting to it. Last year was a defining year, as scandals about Fake News, the effect of the Filter Bubble and unmoderated Hate Speeches were unfortunately on the rise. A very strong and strict action against those (especially the Fake News and the Hate Speeches) were made by the German government, with a legalization that has been since nicknamed as the “Facebook law”, even though it also applies to other sites such as Twitter and YouTube.