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Data firm boss suspended amid Facebook row (bbc.co.uk)
82 points by stehat on March 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments


Why not the source title? ("Cambridge Analytica: Facebook row firm boss suspended")



Here comes the scapegoating.


I'm sure they're shocked - shocked! by what some low-level, ah, CEO was saying to potential customers.


Good time to short FB in the short term. Makes me wonder if anyone knew about this before hand also would have the same idea.


Stock advice from random internet commenters has no value. Smarter people will have already priced any news information into the share price before people read your advice.


or buy the dip for the long term


zuckerberg has been unloading stock.


As part of scheduled plan. Nice try. However, he has been awfully quiet re: CA

Stock Schedule mention: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...


Re: his silence - Isn't he a presidential hopeful (at least in his own mind)? If he's considering a run, perhaps he's trying to appear clean. [edit: clarity]


*was a presidential hopeful is likely more accurate. This breaking caught our attention but the FTC probing, UK parliament etc raising awareness will dent mainstream.


source


[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...

[1] https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=fb (check "insider trading") towards the bottom half of the page


It doesn't take much work

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...

I'm not sure there's any real way to tie this to nefarious intent or insider trading. The timing is so coincidental, however, that it's understandably fueling speculation.


Technically, so has Bill Gates for many, many years.


Too bad no one will end up in prison.




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