{"id":2298,"date":"2018-04-10T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T00:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov-mcgowen\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2018-04-10T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T00:28:54","slug":"currently-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introamgov-mcgowen\/2018\/04\/10\/currently-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 11 focuses on Congress and\u00a0 what goes on behind the scenes that the typical American doesn&#8217;t know a whole lot about.\u00a0 Right now in Congress, there is a huge negotiation over an issue going on with Facebook.\u00a0 It is the social media network&#8217;s biggest scandal in its 14+ years of existence.\u00a0 Mark Zuckerberg, in front of Congress, will be grilled with questions on what is going on with his company and what he looks to do to change it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a basic summary of the issue.\u00a0 Facebook has taken the information that its users insert into the website and give it to a company<em> Cambridge Analytica<\/em>.\u00a0 Cambridge Analytica&#8217;s description on the internet is as follows.\u00a0 &#8220;Cambridge Analytica is a British political consulting firm which combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process.&#8221;\u00a0 As Facebook would see the types of things that users liked, shared, or commented about, the data they received would feed to Cambridge Analytica.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t seem like the biggest deal, but guess what?\u00a0 This firm was hired by Trump&#8217;s 2016 election campaign.\u00a0 This means that the Trump campaign gained access to private information of over 50 million Facebook users.\u00a0 Cambridge Analytica was then able to target users, <strong>based on their likes<\/strong>,\u00a0with digital advertisements that could suede them to vote Republican.<\/p>\n<p>The issue now becomes how to fix this and what steps need to take place.\u00a0 In Zuckerberg&#8217;s session with Congress, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, a Democrat, brought up a point made by Facebook&#8217;s COO.\u00a0 She said that if Facebook users don&#8217;t want their personal information to be used in the company&#8217;s advertising, they may have to pay Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>A public fear is that Congress does not understand technology and its effects all too well so they will decide on implementing laws that will seriously damage the experience of internet users, but that decision is still up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Video from session in Congress:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-there-will-always-be-a-version-of-facebook-that-is-free.html<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/11dc-fblivebrief2\/merlin_136651980_a4b12d60-3fa6-414b-a2ff-2913f63a5c5f-master675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greeting Mr. Zuckerberg on Tuesday are dozens of cardboard cutouts of his own image wearing \u201cfix fakebook.\u201d in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 11 focuses on Congress and\u00a0 what goes on behind the scenes that the typical American doesn&#8217;t know a whole lot about.\u00a0 Right now in Congress, there is a huge negotiation over an issue going on with Facebook.\u00a0 It is the social media network&#8217;s biggest scandal in its 14+ years 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