Facebook users are mad as hell over the Cambridge Analytica scandal (FB)

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• Facebook users were angry after the enormous data breach and trust in the company has plummeted.
• Many have exacted revenge by deleting their account, and a study of 3,000 users in the US showed that they want Facebook punished in other ways.
• The Ponemon Institute found that they expect compensation and greater regulation after 87 million accounts were scraped for data by Cambridge Analytica.
• More honesty could help Facebook in the future.

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There's a simple reason why #DeleteFacebook was trending in the days after revelations about the massive Cambridge Analytica data breach — people were angry.

Mark Zuckerberg testified before US Congress that Facebook has not seen an material number of users delete their accounts as a result of the scandal — but a study by a US think-tank, which has tracked US Facebook users' attitudes sicne 2011, reveals exactly how the public is souring on the social network.

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