The Guardian’s mock “Facebook Your Year in Review video” for Mark Zuckerberg wins the Burn of the Year Award
Anyone with a Facebook account will be very familiar with “Your Year in Review videos, a series of posts from a user’s timeline, accompanied by patronising comments and sundry Facebook icons. However, the greatest Your Year in Review video of all time has been unveiled, and it wasn’t made by Facebook, but about it, and it “celebrates” a humiliating period in facebook’s history.
The Guardian wrote on its website,
“What a year it’s been for the Facebook founder. There was that unforgettable Senate hearing, that huge data scandal and, oh yes, those 2 million Europeans who left the site. One to remember. Merry Christmas, Mark.”
The reason the Guardian has bragging rights on the subject is that they were responsible for the unveiling of the major harvesting of Facebook accounts by the data analysis company, Cambridge Analytica, and its exploitation for spreading political messages.
When the Guardian’s Twitter account shared the savage burn, they even threw in a little Facebook-speak to fan the flames.
Lol Mark, remember Cambridge Analytica and when 2 million people left Facebook. What a year it's been. pic.twitter.com/g7yXy0P4dp
— The Guardian (@guardian) December 19, 2018
The internet loves a good gag – and this is one of the best.
https://twitter.com/mattocko/status/1075505310112968704
Best of all, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, had this to say about the spectacular takedown.
https://twitter.com/chrisinsilico/status/1075521064585834496
He’s not wrong.
