The violations relate to Facebook user data that was harvested by a professor's research project and handed over to Cambridge. On Friday night, after "downplaying" the papers' findings, according to The Times, Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica has been suspended from the site. Related: New York professor sues Cambridge Analytica to find out what it knows about himFacebook said it asked that Cambridge Analytica destroy the data in 2015. James Fallows of The Atlantic wrote on Saturday, "In a normal political environment" Cambridge Analytica and Facebook "would be called in for public questioning." Facebook, for instance, says it applied lessons from the US election to combat misinformation during campaigns in Europe in 2017.

Source: CNN March 17, 2018 19:52 UTC