Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings<br />By TIFFANY HSUMARCH 21, 2018<br />But the news that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm<br />that worked on President Trump’s 2016 campaign, was able to gain access to private data through the social network has sparked an unusually strong reaction among its users.<br />"This is a company that has Orwellian levels of data about us, truly Big Brother-level,<br />but it’s behaving as if it has no social responsibility and is a purely neutral medium of communication,” he said.<br />In the months before the 2016 presidential election, he watched the social network become what he called “a garbage platform of ads<br />and weird reposted articles and people that you care about exposing themselves as racists.”<br />Until he heard about Cambridge Analytica.<br />“But you have to stand for something, so I just put my foot down and said enough is enough.”<br />“There are just so many ways nowadays to stay in contact: phones, email, instant<br />message, Gab, which is a social network that doesn’t censor anything,” he said.<br />“I don’t have a great feeling when I log in.”<br />“I’m not going to give them my engagement clicks,” Ms. Kleeman, 32, said.
