The major ‘takeaways’ from the Big data controversy!

The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook, data leak controversy, has led to a series of things that gained rapid mileage for its tendentious nature. These are the major ones that followed: The 2015 campaign led by the US politician Ted Cruz and the 2016 Brexit vote are the political events that espied politicians paying CA to extract information from the data breach better. On April 10th of 2018 in his testimony to Congress, Facebook director Zuckerberg apologized on behalf of Facebook and admitted the data scandal as his mistake along with pledging to make reforms in Facebook policy to nip in the bud any similar data breaching efforts in future. The Facebook CEO went on to explain that during the US post-election period, they found out a group by the name of Internet Research Agency (IRA) found to actively spread misinformation and manipulated people with fake accounts by using Facebook as a significant platform in the US, Russia, and Europe. The fake accounts were shut down once the situation was tracked down by Facebook.