Mark Zuckerberg actually got $1 billion richer following the news of Facebook's $5 billion fine for the biggest scandal in the company's history (FB)
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- The Federal Trade Commission approved a $5 billion fine for Facebook last week as a result of its investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- Facebook shares actually jumped on the news, rising 1% on Friday to the highest they've been in the past year.
- As Facebook's primary stockholder, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stands to profit handsomely from the stock-price jump: The value of his Facebook stake increased by more than $1 billion in 30 minutes following the news.
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Facebook is about to get slapped with a $5 billion fine by the Federal Trade Commission because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from over 50 million users was used without permission.
In a surprising twist, Facebook's stock value actually rose by 1% on Friday following the news of the FTC's landmark fine — and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg owns a whopping 88.1% of Facebook's shares.
Per an April financial filing, Zuckerberg owns 410,497,115 shares of Facebook. At their price of $202.31 before the news broke around 3:45 p.m. ET, his shares would be worth $83 billion. At their price of $204.87 around 4 p.m., those shares would be worth $84.1 billion.
What that means is that the value of his shares increased by over $1 billion in just 30 minutes.
But why is Facebook getting hit with such a huge fine in the first place?
As Business Insider's Rob Price put it last week: "For the last year, the FTC has been investigating Facebook's various privacy snafus. The agency started with a probe into whether Cambridge Analytica's misappropriation of 87 million users' data amounted to a breach of the company's 2012 consent decree with it. It later expanded the inquiry to incorporate the California tech giant's myriad other recent privacy scandals."
And on Friday, news broke that the result of that investigation would be a $5 billion fine and some additional oversight of Facebook's business practices. Soon after, the company's stock value jumped.
It may sound counterintuitive, but the logic is simple: Because Facebook expected a fine and planned its annual financials around that expectation, investors reacted positively to that plan playing out — and the fine not being bigger.
As Facebook's primary shareholder, Zuckerberg can see a huge windfall from a stock-price increase of just 1%.
The $5 billion FTC fine is intended to punish Facebook for mishandling user data and presumably not to increase the wealth of Facebook's primary shareholder. Facebook could not be immediately reached for comment.
The fine is a record for the FTC — a move seemingly intended to set a precedent for the kind of punishment that tech giants could receive for mishandling their users' data.
But many have characterized it as essentially a slap on the wrist for Zuckerberg and his social-media company.
Facebook is a malware company and FTC is corrupted. We need a special task force to go after the FTC officials and prosecute Zuckerberg like any other cyber criminals.
ReplyDeleteHopefully he will pay dearly for his crimes against the American people!
DeleteWhen the FTC and other government agencies fine companies for harming consumers, where does the money go?
ReplyDeleteThe fine will not be paid. Fuckerberg's lawyers will make sure of that by bribing the judge.
DeleteYou can't just come up with some arbitrary number for fines! You have to at least scale a fine to a companies market share. Because sure 5 billion SOUNDS like a lot of money and for most people, it is; but if a company makes 60 billion in a year, than all of a sudden 5 billion sounds like small potatoes. If you want to discourage bad behavior than you have to fine at least at 6 months of profits. But really the best way is to hold CEO's criminally liable and crackdown hard when this kind of thing happens.
ReplyDeleteThat Zuckerberg has turned out to be evil. I really thought for a long time he was a good guy. Money has corrupted him and his wife.
ReplyDeleteThat’s capitalism for you.
ReplyDeleteYep!
DeleteZUCKERBERG AND THE OTHER 1 PERCENTERS NEED TO BE EXECUTED. They are already threatening lawsuits against the government if Liz Warren wins. I'm not say hang them...but it's time for lethal injection of these greedy bastards. If we don't start now, they will continue to rob this country blind.
ReplyDeleteBut is has to be done lawfully IMO. But if people take the law into their own hands the criminal elite brought it on themselves so fuck em.
DeleteTHE FACT LIZ WARREN ISN'T IN PRISON ALREADY SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE DEPTH OF THE SHIT WE ARE IN.
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