Apple’s CEO answered “acidly” that Facebook should delete any information that it had collected about people outside of its core apps. The report says that Zuckerberg asked Cook how he would handle the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy. The two are said to have met informally in July 2019 to repair their relationship, sitting down at a private event for tech and media moguls. The disclosure revealed that Facebook was collecting the kind of personal data that others could use to target people with certain ads, including political advertisements, and that Facebook made it possible for third parties to abuse that sort of data.ĭetailing the Facebook-Apple relationship since the early years of the iPhone, an extensive report from The New York Times brings up an informal meeting between Cook and Zuckerberg. The Cambridge Analytica scandal exploded two years later when it was discovered that the firm had collected personal data from more than 50 million Facebook users. Facebook and Zuckerberg had to admit that the phenomenon was real. In the years that followed, more evidence was uncovered proving Russia’s involvement. Reports had emerged saying that Russia used Facebook ads and viral posts to campaign for Trump. Facebook and Zuckerberg denied the social network was used to sway voters in the months that followed the 2016 US presidential election.
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