Lately, Facebook has been under scrutiny for its lack of action to protect Americans data from the Russians' attempts to use social media to interfere in our elections.

It has lied and deceived the American people, and it's long been the time that we hold Mark Zuckerberg and company accountable for the last couple years.

Via Facebook, a research firm called Cambridge Analytica, hired by the likes of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Donald Trump himself, collected the data of over 87 million Americans on Facebook.

At first, Facebook said 50 million. Now they're increasing the number almost every day. As of now, it's 87 million, but the number will likely rise in the coming weeks.

The firm identified the personalities of American voters in order to influence their behavior.

In a covert mission by Channel One News in Britain, Cambridge said that they try to invoke emotion from the people they reach on social media, and that's how they get them to vote.

Like any big scandal, to really find the origins one must follow the money.

Cambridge Analytica is funded by Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor, and Steve Bannon, one of Trump's closest advisers in the White House and former top executive at Breitbart.

Facebook allows researchers to have access to users' data, but data being sold is not allowed.

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have known about this since 2015.

But, it's 2018, and we're just now finding out about this.

Over the years, social media has become almost a necessity for people to avoid living under a rock and follow current events. Most everyone has a Facebook account.

To me, it's almost like Walmart. Many people rag on Facebook and Walmart, but they can't avoid them. They're regular customers of both no matter how much they say they despise the two companies.

However, in its defense, Walmart did not let its customers' data get in the hands of foreign adversaries.

Now, all of the attention surrounds Mark Zuckerberg as he is surrounded by cameras while testifying before Congress.

Zuckerberg himself said that if Facebook cannot protect its users' data, then Facebook doesn't deserve the users. He's right; they don't.

Mark is a billionaire, so he'll probably be fine no matter what happens to Facebook.

Though the company is in deep trouble, it's done nothing but grow for 14 years, and it would be incredibly difficult to take it down.

However, it has taken big hits from stocks falling just about every day.

If it weren't for connections to family and student groups on Facebook, I would delete my account. But for anybody else who thinks they can delete Facebook and not lose anything, then more power to you.

Facebook has misled and deceived at least 87 million people, and it's time we cut the cord.

It looks like Zuckerberg 2020 is over before it started.