It's complicated: Facebook's terrible 2018

Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Morris

Monday, 24 Dec 2018

# Cambridge Analytica

Privacy scandals, congressional hearings, and PR disasters: a timeline of a long and difficult year for Mark Zuckerberg

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