Facebook is holding an emergency meeting with their employees this morning.

[kentuck]

Can we guess what that is about?

Is it about their stock prices dropping?

Is it about some new guidelines?

Is it about their culpability in helping Donald Trump win the last election?

Or will they choose to cover their asses?

(Saw this on a crawler on MSNBC this AM)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/cambridge-analytica-scandal-facebook-to-hold-an-emergency-meeting.html

[cyberswede]

1. CYA, of course

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Hey there, pal!

How's life? Was just in Chicago....soon off to Detroit! Spring springing in your area yet????

[cyberswede]

8. Hi!

Nice to "see" you!

We were just in Denver, & will be in KC & Mpls in April, then Chicago & Detroit in June. Volleyball, man!

Slushy snow & ice Saturday, then 50s Sunday. Typical "spring" for us. LOL Have you started your tomatoes?

Are you doing book tours? Or travel for fun? Both?

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. we may have snow tomorrow! Volleyball travel sounds fun!

all travel so far is book tour - done are CT flower show, Morton Arb and a few local ones - coming are White Stone VA, Gillette Wyoming, Detroit, perhaps Tulsa, Monticello - it is pretty crazy really. Vacation starts with a trip to Outer Banks in May.

Transplanting tomatoes into next size up - will be a smaller garden so we are free to travel (we lost both our dogs, so we are freer, but so much sadder).

Nice to see you around!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Here's an article that might provide you some answers:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/cambridge-analytica-scandal-facebook-to-hold-an-emergency-meeting.html

Facebook has scheduled an open meeting to all employees Tuesday to let them ask questions about the unfolding Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, according to an internal calendar invitation reviewed by The Verge. The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company's deputy general counsel. Grewal is expected to explain the background of the case, which involves the user profiles of as many as 50 million people being used by Cambridge Analytica as part of its ad targeting efforts during the 2016 election. Grewal is also expected to take questions via a polling feature found on the meeting's internal event page.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While Facebook executives have been active in discussing the Cambridge Analytica story on internal forums, Tuesday's meeting will represent the first time a large group of employees will have the opportunity to question company leadership live and in person. (The event is also being streamed for remote employees around the world as part of "FYI Live," a series of live chats featuring company executives organized by Facebook's internal communications team.)

The move reflects growing unease internally about Facebook's response to reports published this week in the New York Times and the Guardian.The articles laid out how a researcher at the University of Cambridge created a Facebook app to harvest information about millions of Facebook profiles and improperly gave the data to Cambridge Analytica, in violation of Facebook's terms of service. Together, they raised fresh concerns about the steps that Facebook takes to protect the privacy of users' data, drawing bipartisan calls for Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress and sending Facebook stock tumbling more than 10 percent below the all-time high it reached on February 1st.

[kentuck]

7. Thanks WhiskeyGrinder!

Good info!

[el_bryanto]

3. Well if it's with their employees -

unless they think that the employees are culpable and should be investigated for criminal charges - it will be about protecting the company and thus their jobs. I suppose they might try and throw some people overboard to make the issue go away, but that's a risky strategy.

So my guess it will be about covering their asses. Otherwise they wouldn't be bringing the employees in.

[PA Democrat]

4. My guess.... $$$$$$$$$

How to stop the hemorrhaging of stock value.

[HopeAgain]

5. It's to shut down potential Whistleblowers

Zuckerberg is not, nor will he ever be, a "good guy."

[C_U_L8R]

10. They forgot who their real customers are

and trust broken is never replaced. Never.

They'll never be what they once were.

[ecstatic]

11. If they actually discuss anything,

it will be about their bottom line.