After hearing his COO Sheryl Sandberg admit to Vice News that Zuckerberg and other top officials at FB knew about the data breach for 2 years before they were forced to go public (due to the whistleblower) & that it likely affected all 2 Billion of FB accounts, I can't believe a thing they say.

regarding the data breach, i would also assume it affected almost all accounts.
i know/remember several of my friends took that psycho survey so it was my choices to override default privacy settings that minimized my collateral damage from that app data suck.

they should be open about how many affected accounts were us residents and how many were likely eligible voters in 2016.
and then how many of those were possibly influenced by IRA content because they liked/followed their content/pages or joined their groups.
finally they should be transparent about the IRA-controlled pages and groups, listed by name, and searchable, instead of simply providing a tool that states whether or not your account was so affected.

but i digress only long enough to realize this probably wouldn't have happened if FB were already responsive to GDRP requirements in 2015.

this probably wouldn't have happened if FB were already responsive to GDRP requirements in 2015

In 2015, there was no GDPR. the EU GDPR starts on May 25th (2018).

Zuckerberg: FB will offer GDPR privacy controls everywhere

... Excepting in the USA : [theguardian.com...] . I guess this is because "some laws elsewhere in the world conflict with GDPR", so the elsewhere, seems to be the USA, which have laws which is forbidding privacy protection...

Sandberg's interview with PBS's Judy Woodruff: [google.com...]

She's using very careful language ahead of Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress next week, but it's clear they knew for over 2 years and said nothing!

Facebook is packed with top computer engineers, they developed everything themselves, so of course, they know everything what is going on, and everything which is possible to to with their data. It's not like if it was a site made by a teen in his bedroom.

... or that they knew the same stuff was used by the previous two administrations and looked the other way because they liked 'em. Or that the media back then thought "how smart!" for their guys to use technology to win elections.

Having revealed the genie, now out of the bottle, they got (the "they" is the opposition, not say FB in particular) suddenly realized "how horrible!" "this must be stopped!"

Well, the next genie to be let out of the bottle, and already started with GDPR, is government intervention and possibly making these "secret algos" public utilities and revealing how they work for transparency reasons.

Another article :

Facebook to exclude North American users from some privacy enhancements
[techcrunch.com...]

I wonder if North Americans won't mind, or if they'll start thinking, hey, why can't we get the same privacy protection as Europeans ?

The odd is that all this is coming out just a few months before the enforcing of the GDPR.

In 2015, there was no GDPR.

i didn't think it was necessary to point that fact out in the GDPR forum.

or that they knew the same stuff was used by the previous two administrations and looked the other way because they liked 'em.

that's a false equivalence until there is evidence the "same stuff" was used by a foreign government during the previous two administrations.

Another article :

Facebook to exclude North American users from some privacy enhancements
[techcrunch.com...]

already old news.
(more like old/misinformed editorial.)
the article i posted above from the same publication was about MZ specifically walking back the assertions made in the piece you posted.

MZ recently revealed that GDPR would be applied to FB everywhere (except countries that don't allow it).

Sadly, what some call disinformation is turning out to be true and there is, and always has been, a concern regarding user privacy.

(A few of us saw that back when "personalized ads" came on line)