Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists

Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by jobigoud on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:32AM (#16687284)

Please recall that the vast majority of Facebook users are not from the US. I'm not sure the scandal has been that much publicized or that their global image has changed much to be honest.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by r_singh on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:38AM (#16687324)

Here in India it was on the front pages of most of the popular english newspapers.

My dad, who is 50+ years old, knew about Cambridge Analytica few months from now because of a documentary related to Donald Trump's win; he deleted his Facebook then and there.

However, I'm not sure that a majority of the people in India really care about the shady privacy permissions Facebook has slyly made them accept.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:37AM (#16687311)

> the vast majority of Facebook users are not from the US

49% of Facebook's 2017 worldwide revenues came from the U.S. and Canada [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680118... page 37

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by jobigoud on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:45AM (#16687377)

Yes but Facebook is driven by the network effect, and only 230M users are from the US, compared to the 2.2B global.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by stephengillie on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:51AM (#16687776)

Americans are subsidising Facebook for the rest of the world? It seems like we should get more for our money.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by Lio on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:39AM (#16688842)

You mean American corporations. American users aren't Facebook's customers.

All users are just product to Facebook.

It could well be that Facebook's American corporate customers are more interested in worldwide product than domestic product.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by lev99 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:17AM (#16688578)

If they have more revenue per person in the US it doesn't mean that they are losing money in their international business.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by Harvey-Specter on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:22AM (#16687572)

My partner was born in Germany and most of her family still lives there so she keeps up with German news. She is under the impression that the scandal is getting more publicity and generating more outrage in Germany than it is here in Canada.

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