Zuckerberg reportedly told Facebook executives to use Android, not Apple, phones

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg can hold a grudge.

According to the New York Times, the Facebook CEO reportedly ordered his management team to use only Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly commented on the scandal of the social media company Cambridge Analytica.

"We're not going to tamper with your personal life," Cook said, citing the scandal in a MSNBC interview. "Privacy for us is a human right.This is a civil liberty."

After these remarks, the Times reports that Zuckerberg told Facebook executives to use only Android phones, because this operating system is more used in the world than Apple's iPhone operating system. It is not clear if Zuckerberg's management team has switched to Android phones. Facebook did not immediately respond to the request for comment.

Facebook has been closely scrutinized for its privacy practices after The Guardian and the New York Times published reports on how Cambridge Analytica, a computer consulting firm hired by the presidential campaign Trump, had extracted personal data from 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

Apple, for its part, has stopped saying that it was a big supporter of users' privacy. Cook has even warned, during several interviews, of the dangers of social media and other free online services. In the interview with MSNBC, Cook said that his company deliberately favored privacy for profit by refusing to sell customer data.

"The truth is that we could make a lot of money if we monetized our customer – if our customer was our product," Cook said. "We chose not to do that."

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