He hasn't addressed these scandals because there's nothing to address - the "scandals" are entirely artificial, whipped up by the same frenzied political climate that convinced half of America Trump is a Russian spy.
Let's look at Cambridge Analytica?
• Not proven anything they did actually affected anything. The assumption it did relies on a lot of controversial beliefs about human nature.
• Data was obtained through a middleman who violated his own agreements with Facebook - an academic who has mysteriously not been held to account for this behaviour. Somehow it's all Facebook's fault.
• They restricted data access to apps anyway. Not much more they can do beyond terminate all API access to Facebook data, which would just get them in trouble of a different kind.
There's nothing more Facebook can do here. Zuck's biggest mistake was not to go in all guns blazing in defence of the company and adopt a head-hanging mea culpa type attitude, which allowed his political enemies to frame it as a scandal when it simply wasn't.
Likewise, "election interference". It's all nonsense. A few hundred thousand spent on ads for both parties by Russians? A whole lot of innuendo and lies from the press? Indeed the entire assumption that Russians = Russia = the Kremlin is absurd to begin with. Zuck should have very forcefully and bombastically slapped down this kind of talk. He failed to face down the anti-Trump mob and now the mob failed again to get Trump impeached, they're coming for him instead.
Of course the CA scandal is real, of only slightly misframed. You can't accidentally leak data that you don't store and you're unlikely to provide API access to data you really consider private. Did they manage to expose peoples' raw passwords? Nope, because they consider it "sensitive" data, unlike basically everything else. Had they treat social graph as private as passwords, the CA story would never happen.
It's because a certain segment of america does not wanna believe that people could vote for Donald Trump unless they were manipulated, so they need a scapegoat (FB).
Let's look at Cambridge Analytica?
• Not proven anything they did actually affected anything. The assumption it did relies on a lot of controversial beliefs about human nature.
• Data was obtained through a middleman who violated his own agreements with Facebook - an academic who has mysteriously not been held to account for this behaviour. Somehow it's all Facebook's fault.
• They restricted data access to apps anyway. Not much more they can do beyond terminate all API access to Facebook data, which would just get them in trouble of a different kind.
There's nothing more Facebook can do here. Zuck's biggest mistake was not to go in all guns blazing in defence of the company and adopt a head-hanging mea culpa type attitude, which allowed his political enemies to frame it as a scandal when it simply wasn't.
Likewise, "election interference". It's all nonsense. A few hundred thousand spent on ads for both parties by Russians? A whole lot of innuendo and lies from the press? Indeed the entire assumption that Russians = Russia = the Kremlin is absurd to begin with. Zuck should have very forcefully and bombastically slapped down this kind of talk. He failed to face down the anti-Trump mob and now the mob failed again to get Trump impeached, they're coming for him instead.