2018: a terrible year for Facebook – podcast

Facebook has been hit by a series of data, privacy and hate speech scandals this year. Alex Hern, the Guardian’s UK tech editor, discusses how Mark Zuckerberg has responded. Plus the Guardian environment reporter Oliver Milman on returning to Paradise, California, after the deadliest fire in the state’s history

It has not been a good year for Facebook. The company has been hit by a series of scandals about data, privacy and hate speech. In March, the Guardian and Observer published the Cambridge Analytica Files, an investigation that revealed about 50 million US Facebook users had had their data harvested, largely without their knowledge or consent.

Alex Hern, the Guardian’s UK tech editor, discusses how Mark Zuckerberg responded to the crisis, and the others that followed, including Facebook’s involvement in human rights and environmental violations in Myanmar and its use of the PR firm Definers Public Affairs. Plus the Guardian environment reporter Oliver Milman returns to Paradise, California, and meets residents whose homes were destroyed by the deadliest fire in the state’s history.

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