Mark Zuckerberg once called Facebook users ‘dumb f***s’ for handing personal data over to him – as firm becomes further embroiled in Cambridge Analytica row
Cambridge Analytica bought 50 million Facebook users’s data without consent
This information is said to have been used to help elect President Donald Trump
Zuckerberg’s comments have now re-surfaced in the wake of the privacy row
Critics say it shows Zuckerberg’s history of disregard for privacy expectations
By TIM COLLINS
DAILYMAIL.COM
19 March 2018
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s comments that early users of his social network were ‘dumb f***s’ for trusting him with their data have re-emerged.
Zuckerberg made the shocking remark during an instant messenger conversation with a friend at the age of 19, shortly after launching the site.
First picked up on by the media in 2010, his comments have now re-surfaced in the wake of a privacy row involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
The firm is reported to have bought data from 50 million Facebook users that was obtained without their permission.
This information is said to have been used to help elect President Donald Trump in the US, as well as to boost the Brexit campaign in the UK.
The leaked conversation was published in a Medium blog post by journalist Maria Bustillos.
Ms Bustillos it shows that Zuckerberg has a long history of disregarding the privacy expectations of users over handling of their data.
The conversation, which has since been discussed widely on social media, ran as follows:
Zuckerberg: Yea so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask. ‘i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: people just submitted it. i don’t know why. they “trust me”. dumb f***s.
Cambridge Analytica is the firm currently centre of a scandal over alleged misuse of Facebook users’ personal data.
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