Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone

© Neil Daswani and Moudy Elbayadi 2021

N. Daswani, M. ElbayadiBig Breacheshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6655-7_5

5. Facebook Security Issues and the 2016 US Presidential Election

Neil Daswani¹   and Moudy Elbayadi²

(1)

Pleasanton, CA, USA

(2)

Carlsbad, CA, USA

 

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. By 2020, Facebook grew to become the world largest social networking site with over 2.74B billion monthly active users. Facebook’s user base accounted for more than half of the world’s 4.5 billion Internet users, and Facebook’s annual revenue was over $70 billion. Facebook’s users do not directly pay for the service, and Facebook makes the majority of its revenue from ...