Facebook Security Issues and the 2016 US Presidential Election

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. By 2019, Facebook grew to become the world largest social networking site with over 2.4 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 advertisers that target users with online ads. The rise of such a large online social platform was unprecedented in human history and holds both promise and peril.