Facebook lost more than Tesla's market cap

The stock will come back, just as Wells Fargo, United Airlines, and Intel stock came back after their scandals.<p>Facebook in particular will come back because there is no alternative social network with nearly as many people on it. The fundamentals of the business aren&#x27;t really at risk -- most of the users will stay. The impact of potential privacy-related regulation is already priced in to a large extent because everyone already knew that GDPR was going to happen before this latest scandal broke, and Facebook was already prepared to comply with it. I doubt the US Congress in its current state would pass anything as strict as that.

Facebook isn&#x27;t going to disappear, but the company&#x27;s valuation has fast growth baked in the cake.<p>We&#x27;re already seeing dramatic deterioration in DAUs and minutes per user.<p>This episode will cause a few users to leave Facebook completely, but many more will use it less.<p>And that deceleration in the growth rate will need to be offset with an acceleration in earnings and cash flow for the stock price to increase from here.

So, an already oversized company that has been loosing business to startups for several years is gonna do more work in-house?

A lot of commentary here (not all) seems to miss one critical point: what is the inherent value of Facebook to its users, and has THAT been recently degraded? Controversy aside, this will be the big factor behind an exodus from Facebook, and I would argue that for months if not a year or more, Facebook has ceased to provide value to an enormous portion of its user base.