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> I hear this from my friends in technology. It is not supported by the data: Facebook’s net favourability is down 28 points [1].

The question is whether that is durable, or just something that hangs around while this is in the headlines with a focus on FB.




Absolutely, will public mistrust stay around, or is Facebook just the demon of the day to be hated at by the talking heads on tv? From everything I've seen, the greater public won't remember or care a week after the media moves on.


It just might hang around for as long as Trump is president in the US, considering how this started as an offshoot of the ”Russian interference” investigation.


given the association with Cambridge Analytica I would expect this to be an ongoing concern until beyond the next presidential election




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