The move follows intense scrutiny of the business in how it uses and protects user data, after a huge number of its users data was found to have been used by political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. (marketingindustrynews.com)
The tumble for Facebook came as a result of a report that the company shared the data of as many as 50 million of its users with the controversial, United Kingdom - based political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — the same firm that helped the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in the 2016 election. (ibtimes.com)
Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who revealed the role played by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica in obtaining data from Facebook users, said on Sunday he was blocked by the social media network. (cnbc.com)