{"id":142124,"date":"2018-04-04T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142124"},"modified":"2018-04-05T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:37:59","slug":"fixing-facebook-will-take-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142124","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Facebook will take many years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ZuckerbergMark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142157\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ZuckerbergMark-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ZuckerbergMark-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ZuckerbergMark-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ZuckerbergMark.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(AP) \u2014 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says fixing the company&#8217;s problems will take many years.<\/p>\n<p>In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he wishes he could snap his fingers and solve everything in three to six months. But, he said, &#8220;these are big issues&#8221; and a big shift for Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>That says, he says the company will have &#8220;turned a corner&#8221; on a lot of these issues by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has set fixing Facebook as his personal challenge for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The issues Facebook needs to address go beyond the privacy scandal involving Trump-affiliated consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook also has been dealing with fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media&#8217;s effect on people&#8217;s mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Among the latest changes: Facebook is restricting access that apps can get about users&#8217; events, as well as information about groups such as member lists and content.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the company is also removing the option to search for users by entering a phone number or an email address. While this helped individuals find friends who may have a common name, Facebook says businesses that had phone or email information on customers were able to collect profile information this way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook says as many as 87 million people may have had their data accessed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal \u2014 an increase from the 50 million disclosed in published reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says fixing the company&#8217;s problems will take many years. In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he wishes he could snap his fingers and solve everything in three to six months. But, he said, &#8220;these are big issues&#8221; and a big shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142158,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142124\/revisions\/142158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}