Unless you live under a rock, I'm sure you have heard by now what happened to Facebook. Around 97 million of their 2.1 billion users had their data stolen, but that did not really impact the company, a dangerously large number. This lends itself to a little bit of a flashback to the Equifax data scandal last year, in which much more sensitive information of millions of Americans was lost. Because of the sheer nature of the issue, and how large of a company Facebook is, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the man we all know and worship, had to testify before Congress.
His testimony was such good PR for Facebook that Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook literally made three billion dollars during that short testimony. THREE BILLION. You would think that after your company just went through a nightmare and you had millions of your users' data stolen, that you would lose a lot of money and your stock would tank. And don't me wrong, but Zuckerberg did lose a bit of money. But while the CEO of a company gives a testimony about that nightmare of an incident, money is the last thing you'd think he'd make. But Zuckerberg is Zuckerberg, and Facebook came out on top, as always.