Meta Chose Growth Over Security: Cybersecurity’s ‘Hold My Data’ Moment
In a lawsuit that reads like a Silicon Valley tragedy-comedy, Meta—yes, the Facebook ghost ship now helmed by Mark Zuckerberg’s grand Metaverse dreams—allegedly prioritized mammoth user growth over the tiny, pesky detail called digital security. Imagine a company pumping users faster than a caffeine-fueled startup on a red bull binge, leaving security like a deflated balloon in the analytics garage! The complaint, unnamed in specifics but rich in irony, paints a picture of a 21st-century Amazonian jungle where data breaches lurk behind every pixelated tree, and protecting users ranks somewhere between optional and a Wednesday lunch decision. Oh Meta, broad user base but narrow safety net—now that’s a plot twist fresher than Zuckerberg's VR headset unveiling!
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Meta put user growth in the front seat and security in the trunk on a road trip to Data Disaster-ville. Guess who forgot to pack the digital seatbelt? Hint: it starts with M and ends with eta.
Meta’s growth strategy apparently involved a game of dodgeball with hackers, starring user data as the helpless ball. Spoiler: data got splattered.
When your priority is growth over security, you might as well put ‘Hacker Welcome’ mats at the door. Meta’s new digital hospitality program is lethal.
Source: Arstechnica | Published: 9/8/2025 | Author: Dan Goodin
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