Facebook Inc. FB, -1.34% said it would suspend another data analytics company, CubeYou, for the unauthorized use of user data, CNBC reported Sunday. CubeYou mislabeled its Facebook quizzes as for "non-profit academic research," but actually sold the data it collected to marketers, CNBC said. Read More

Facebook acknowledged last week that CEO Mark Zuckerberg had deleted some of the messages he sent and received through the Messenger app. Other Messenger users currently do not have as much control of their communications. For example, if a user deletes their chat sessions or Facebook … Read More

Facebook has suspended another data analytics firm with links to Cambridge university pending an investigation into the potential leak of personal data. It also called on UK data regulators to look into “the development of apps in general” by a research arm of the university. Sunday's move has shone a … …

The spokesperson said that from Tuesday the company would begin showing users which apps they connected to at the top of their Facebook feed, and an easy way to delete them. "As part of this, we will let people know if their data might have been accessed by Cambridge Analytica," …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some U.S. lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at Congressional hearings over a political consultancy's use of customer data, two congressional aides said on Sunday. Read More

We had some time and a little money on our side now and the goal was to understand the Facebook advertising platform. We wanted to drive people to our site and to turn those visitors into newsletter subscribers. Facebook was the logical place for this with the ability to message …

Eighty-seven million Facebook users around the world will find out on Monday if their details were shared with Cambridge Analytica in one of the social network's largest data breaches. The firm said affected users would receive a detailed message on their news feeds. The majority of those whose … Read More

Less than a second later, a Facebook app had harvested not only Mr. Deason's profile data, but also data from the profiles of 205 of his Facebook friends. Their names, birth dates and location data, as well as lists of every Facebook page they had ever liked, were downloaded — …

So when it came to light this week that he's been deleting his own sent messages from Facebook — something that users themselves can't do — nobody was exactly surprised. But the news comes in the middle of a category-5 shitstorm for Zuckerberg thanks to the 87 million accounts affected …

Facebook isn't just taking action against the companies directly involved in the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal. The company has suspended CubeYou after CNBC sent word that the analytics company was using Cambridge Analytica-style methods to harvest data for marketing purposes. Read More