Facebook takes out full-page newspaper ads to apologize for 'Cambridge Analytica' scandal

Monday, March 26, 2018
Facebook's founder is now apologizing for the site's data scandal with full-page ads in several newspapers in the U.S. and the UK.



A political consulting company called 'Cambridge Analytica' accessed data on 50 million Facebook users during the presidential election.
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Mark Zuckerberg says the social media giant is taking steps to make sure that something like this does not happen again - calling it a 'breach of trust.'

Zuckerberg says the company is investigating every app that had access to large amounts of data before Facebook eventually fixed the problem.
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