https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-probes-employees-ties-to-cambridge-analytica/

The New York Times and the UK's Guardian and Observer newspapers reported Saturday that Cambridge Analytica harvested information from 50 million Facebook accounts without users' permission and then misused for political ads during the 2016 US presidential election. Joseph Chancellor, now a virtual reality researcher at Facebook, was a director of Global Science Research, a company that reportedly provided data to Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook said the work he did at Global Science Research is unrelated to work he's currently doing at the social-networking giant. Still, it said, the company is examining the situation.