As Cannes approaches, the Facebook team that's prepping for the festival and will be on-site there is surely hoping for a lull in the continuing anti-Facebook storm.
But, um, that doesn't look like it's going to happen. Consider the steady stream of damning headlines from just one publication, The New York Times, last week. On Monday: "Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends." On Tuesday: "Facebook Back on the Defensive, Now Over Data Deals With Device Makers." On Wednesday: "Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence."
And by Thursday, the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook mess was back in the paper, thanks to an appearance by CA's defensive, combative former CEO, Alexander Nix, before British lawmakers.
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