Zuckerberg Charged with Role in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Washington DC District Attorney is indicting Mark Zuckerberg. The attorney says he has evidence that Zuckerberg, as CEO of Facebook (now Meta), participated in the decision-making process that made the data scandal possible.
"The evidence shows that Mr Zuckerberg was personally involved in Facebook's inability to protect users' privacy and data, which led directly to the Cambridge Analytica incident," prosecutor Karl Racine said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. He also states that business leaders are also responsible for their actions.
The case comes after Racine tried to implicate Zuckerberg in a Cambridge Analytica lawsuit last year. The court did not agree with this because it thought it had been waiting too long to sue the CEO of Meta. Racine then says that it took...