Were you Facebook-hacked? / Journalism's 'biggest crisis' / Self-driving danger

Were you Facebook-hacked? The company today begins alerting users whose data may have been harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

■ The New York Times talked to angry victims.
■ Founder Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook today: “We were too slow identifying election interference … and we need to do better.”
■ … and in an interview with The Atlantic: “It’s … our responsibility to make sure that all these tools are used well, not just to put them in people’s hands.”
■ … so the company is supporting new “independent, credible research about the role of social media in elections, as well as democracy more generally.”
■ As Zuckerberg heads to Congress Tuesday and Wednesday: Five questions he could face.

STORY CORRECTED, 8:02 p.m. The following item linked from Monday’s Square was incorrect. The Washington Post explains. Square regrets linking to the original erroneous content.
Oops. A Fox News host regretted airing a graphic showing viewers trust it least among cable news outlets.
■ Jimmy Kimmel is apologizing for a Twitter feud with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

Why more good people don’t run for office. An unsuccessful candidate for the Illinois legislature explains.
■ Conservative columnist George Will condemns state governments that deny ex-cons the right to vote.
■ FiveThirtyEight: How Russia could steal our next election.

Journalism’s ‘biggest crisis.’ The New York Times editor says it’s not Donald Trump; it’s “the decline of local newspapers.”
■ To protest the latest round of layoffs, Denver Post workers are planning a walkout today.

Snow, again. Just when you thought it was safe to put away your boots in Chicago …

Self-driving danger. The Tribune’s Mary Wisniewski takes a critical look at so-called self-driving cars: “Humans get awfully bored trying to catch a mostly functional machine not working. It’s like watching a clock all day.”
■ The South Shore commuter railroad today begins testing a new safety system designed to slow or stop trains moving too fast.
■ Along the Edens between Chicago and Northbrook today: Bus-only express lanes open.

‘Disneyland for adults.’ That’s the way one attendee summed up the weekend’s Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, or C2E2, for the Tribune’s Darcel Rockett and William Lee.
■ One revelation of a project in the works: Thor’s daughters. (Photo: The Chicago Public Square Flickr group.)
■ A photo gallery of costumes at C2E2.

Announcements.
■ Ace Square reader Mike Braden noted this redundancy in Friday’s edition: “a DePaul law professor’s use of the word “n____r” by a DePaul University professor.”
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