Assignment : How are factors internal to Facebook contributing to the one or more problems?

News has just become public: Cambridge Analytica used Facebook users data without their awareness to try influencing them during the 2016 Presidential campaign. U.S. citizens, the Congress, and Facebook’s Board of Directors are alarmed, demanding an explanation of how to prevent the same mistake from recurring. The Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg, schedules a meeting with the Director of Business Development, Director of Marketing, and Director of Information Security to discuss what happened. Assume that you are one of these directors and that you will meet with the other two directors. Before the meeting, everyone should review the background materials. During the meeting, each group member should choose a role. Then the group should answer the questions below, drawing from at least two sources not provided by the instructor. Incorporate at least one principle from the Social Media Club’s code of conduct and any other relevant values. Also, include any facts, citing them.

Q1: How are factors internal to Facebook contributing to the one or more problems? Provide enough of an explanation to imply one or more solutions to the problem (without naming the solutions).

Q2: How are factors external to Facebook contributing to the one or more problems? Provide enough of an explanation to imply one or more solutions to the problem (without naming the solutions).

SAMPLE SOLUTION

There are various ways in which factors internal to Facebook contributed to the challenges the company faces regarding its users’ data. One of the factors internal to the company is the organizational policy that allowed Facebook to grant Facebook and other high ranking executives the influence and power to control personal information shared on the social media platform not available to other users (Patterson, 2020). Up until 2018, Facebook and its leadership had not changed the company’s privacy policy. At the same time, it was important to note that these internal factors also included Facebook’s resolve and decision to maintain healthy data-sharing partnerships…