An $8 billion US trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicks off on Wednesday over claims that they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement with the U.

Facebook pledged to alert those users whose personal data was improperly collected by Cambridge Analytica. Facebook also posted a link to updated policies for Instagram , which it owns.

Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica could have improperly accessed up to 87 million Facebook users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the social media giant made "a huge mistake"

Cambridge Analytica, the political ad marketing firm that worked for President Trump and was involved in the misappropriation of 87 million Facebook users' data, is closing its offices.

Facebook data was contorted without user consent to put a candidate in the White House. That's not today's news — it happened in 2012. That Cambridge Analytica obtained scraped Facebook data for ...

Cook County is suing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for allegedly violating an Illinois fraud law after reports that the political consulting firm used ill-gotten Facebook data in an effort to ...

On Friday, Facebook revealed the suspension of Cambridge Analytica, claiming the data firm secured information on user profiles through a personality quiz app from Global Science Research without ...