and possibly because it donald trump still dispute has already done a lot of damage though at least as far as trust is concerned. facebook was gripped by a major scandal this week after it emerged the company had pilfered masses of user data c.e.o. mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy but at the beginning of the week he was keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered the data research company cambridge analytic spot on fifty million of facebook's users much of the information gleaned was said to have been used to try and influence the u.s. presidential election facebook failed to inform those affected and merely told cambridge analytic to delete the data which reportedly never happened instead facebook opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former research director at cambridge analytics. i magine i