Facebook exposed data on 50 million Facebook users to a researcher who worked at Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign.

Cambridge Analytica was created when Steve Bannon approached conservative megadonors Rebekah and Robert Mercer to fund a political consulting firm. Bannon became vice president of Cambridge Analytica, and during the 2016 election, he reached out to the Trump campaign to introduce the two sides.

Kogan built a Facebook app that was a quiz.

It not only collected data from people who took the quiz, however this app it exposed a loophole in Facebook API that allowed it to collect data from the Facebook friends of the quiz takers as well.

Facebook prohibited the selling of data collected with this method, but Cambridge Analytica sold the data anyway.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a response to this scandal, “I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again. The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago. But we also made mistakes, there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it.”



Following this events, we the community think that is best to close Facebook for one day every year just to move on from our online social life in order to gain control and balance in our daily routine.

February 4 the day Facebook was launched online, will be the day Facebook should close all activity for one full day in order to gain our trust and to acknowledge that we the people is what Facebook is all about.