https://www.cnet.com/news/can-facebook-be-blamed-for-cambridge-analytica/

Facebook is dealing with another controversy related to the 2016 US presidential election, and the fallout could have implications for how the social network treats data and the community of software developers who have access to it.

On Saturday, the New York Times reported that a firm called Cambridge Analytica, which worked with the Donald Trump campaign, harvested information from 50 million Facebook accounts without their permission.