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Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in response to Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Sep 23 2019 12:50PM

As part of ongoing app developer investigation.

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in response to Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook said on Friday it has suspended tens of thousands of apps on the social networking platform, as part of the company's ongoing app developer investigation it began in March 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica row. The suspended apps are associated with about 400 developers, ...

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