The Zuckerberg empire continues to collapse: its partners are abandoning it

On Wednesday 13/03, everyone was shocked by the fall of the three social networks with more users and more data streams belonging to Facebook, the star company of Silicon Valley created by Mark Zuckerberg. Just in the afternoon, applications stopped working in their 100%, as it was not easy to navigate on Instagram and for Facebook, he was not even allowed to access it.

"We are facing a significant disruption, which is affecting publication and connection capacity, we are actively watching the problem and hope to resolve it quickly," He expressed Facebook through a statement.

As a trigger, on Thursday 14/03, Chris Cox, Facebook Product Manager, and Chris Daniels, WhatsApp Director, announced that after 13 years they would give up Zuckerberg, resigning from their positions within the company.

In the meantime, according to New York TimesUS federal prosecutors are investigating Facebook's recently signed agreements with leading technology companies. Suspicions revolve around the demand of certain companies, in particular Appleto access the personal information of hundreds of millions of social network users

Can this be considered as one of the consequences of the episode that occurred early in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?

Some people think that yes, the scandal involving the two companies is at the origin of the debate on the protection of privacy in social networks and also calling into question certain aspects of the famous globalization, Facebook in itself.

The case of Cambridge Analytica revealed that the private data company that combines data mining and data badysis with strategic communication, for the electoral process, was illegally using user information for political purposes as part of the electoral campaign. United States in 2016.

Harry Davies, the Guardian reporter, reported the situation for the first time in 2015 and reported that Cambridge Analytica was working for the US Senator Ted Cruz steal data from Facebook users.

Although no one took a close look at that time, in 2018, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie This was an anonymous source of the article "The Great British Brexit Flight" middle L & # 39; Observer, which has been answered by other major American media such as New York Times.

The scandal led to the testimony of both companies before the United States Congress and the fall of Facebook shares. However, this was not enough for users to stop using social networks as subscriptions continued to increase.

Although, on the other hand, the scandal has been important to encourage the debate on ethics concerning the use of personnel and the objectives of globalization.

Until 5 years ago, the public did not think that the phenomenon of technological globalization was a marvelous thing that made it possible to connect the world population regardless of time and place, but it does not matter. is more fascinating than ever before.

Going back to the fall of Facebook, although it was the closest thing to the apocalypse for Facebook users and its owner, it was not for. Telegram, the original Russian application of mobile messaging developed since 2013, since it has added 3 million new users while WhatsApp It did not work in its entirety.