Facebook Sends Lawyers To Speak To Employees About Latest Scandal, Advertisers Unfazed

The latest scandal to rock Facebook is the Cambridge Analytica debacle, where the data of over 50 million users was apparently used to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential elections. Unlike previous incidents, however, where the social network’s top brass would play damage control, they seem particularly quiet this time around.

In times of crisis, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg would often try to mitigate the effects of the development when speaking to workers by addressing the problem internally. They would say comforting words to reassure the people working for them that everything was still under control. For this particular scandal, they only sent a lawyer to allay the fears of its workers, Bloomberg reports.

Replacing Zuckerberg or Sandberg as the people whom Facebook workers can turn to during this incident was deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal. Right off the bat, Grewal tried to paint the social network as a victim in all of this. According to him, if the news reports surrounding this scandal were true, it would mean that Facebook was lied to.

Apparently, the top people at the company still believes that it was free of responsibility because it followed everything in its own guidelines to the letter. When one employee asked Grewal about the morality of those guidelines and the adherence to them, however, he gave no direct response.

In any case, Facebook doesn’t seem to have much to fear from this new debacle, at least for now. It would seem that advertisers are still sticking with the platform and are setting their budget accordingly.

Many of them are watching the developments regarding the Cambridge Analytica drama with interest, however. Due to how Facebook has managed to weather storms of this nature in the past and have only come out stronger for it, advertisers naturally believe that the social network can survive this one.