Facebook has agreed to pay about $643,000 to a U.K. data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Ben Margot/AP hide caption
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Brittany Kaiser, former employee of Cambridge Analytica, stands near the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on July 31. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
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Christopher Wylie, a Canadian data scientist, speaks on Aug. 31 at the Antidote festival at the Sydney Opera House about his role in exposing the work of Cambridge Analytica. Fairfax Media hide caption
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Facebook shares tumbled Thursday after it announced a slowdown in user growth and projected that its revenue growth would decelerate for the rest of 2018. Eric Thayer/Reuters hide caption
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump greets British politician Nigel Farage during a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 24, 2016. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says "there are so many overlaps" between Russia, the Trump campaign and the Brexit vote. Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images hide caption
Reporter Shows The Links Between The Men Behind Brexit And The Trump Campaign
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Facebook says it disagrees with how The New York Times is presenting data-sharing deals it has used for at least 10 years. Here, a man reads security parameters on his phone in front of a Facebook logo in Bordeaux, southwestern France. Regis Duvignau/Reuters hide caption
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Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica employee, prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Al Drago/Reuters hide caption
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Cambridge Analytica announced Wednesday that it is immediately shutting down operations. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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After Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Congress about a massive data breach, the company announced it would no longer fund an effort to oppose The Consumer Right to Privacy Act. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption
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A laptop showing the Facebook logo is held alongside a Cambridge Analytica sign at the entrance to the London offices of Cambridge Analytica. The company's acting CEO, Alexander Tayler, is stepping down, and is the second CEO out since the data sharing scandal broke. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
This week, Facebook began notifying people whether they had ever logged in to the "This Is Your Digital Life" app — which has been linked to the exposure of tens of millions of records for political research. NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
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According to reporting by CNBC, Cubeyou collected data from Facebook users through personality quizzes "for non-profit academic research" developed with Cambridge University, and then sold the data to advertisers. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
A sign at the entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters location in Menlo Park, California. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption