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Zuckerberg faces new risks as scandal-hit Facebook nears a saturation point

Scandals have damaged the company, but the most pressing problem is that there aren't that many people left to convert- they're all already on Facebook

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A 3D-printed Facebook logo and Like are seen in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration photo | Photo: Reuters

Sarah Frier Bloomberg
After all the controversy Facebook Inc. has generated in recent months, it seemed almost inevitable that at some point, the social media giant would get what it had coming. A reckoning. Wednesday’s disappointing earnings report and Thursday’s historic 19 per cent stock drop appeared to be a fitting conclusion to an easy narrative.

But the story isn’t that simple. Yes, the privacy protections the company put in place after a series of scandals played a role in the dismal earnings. But the company’s bigger problem is that the main social network— the invention that made it a corporate