This comes a day after Instagram was slammed for being the worst social media culprit for facilitating child abuse. Any relief the social media giant may have been feeling following January’s record results, and consigning 2018 to the history books, now seems to be fading away. At the end of January, the news broke that Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a 'Facebook Research' VPN to harvest users' phone and web activity. The Truth EmergesAt the time, the social media giant claimed that "less than 5 percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research program were teens. “At the time we ended the Facebook Research App on Apple’s iOS platform, less than 5 percent of the people sharing data with us through this program were teens.

Source: Forbes March 02, 2019 07:12 UTC