Facebook’s esports dreams face the privacy PR nightmare

It’s no secret that Facebook’s mishandling of consumer data has landed it in hot water. This forced the social-media behemoth’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg a date with Congress to explain how data from an estimated 87 million Facebook users was leveraged to influence voters during the 2016 election.

And this blunder wasn’t a one time thing. Facebook was hit by scandal after scandal in 2018, including a software bug that disrupted privacy settings for 14 million users. We’ve also learned that Facebook offered advertisers special access to users’ data and activities.