Facebook aggressively stopped rivals from accessing its users' data to maintain dominance, causing many apps to fail. CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally approved a decision to block Twitter's app Vine from accessing users' Facebook friends lists. We launched the Facebook Platform in 2007 with the idea that more apps should be social. 'It is clear that increasing revenues from major app developers was one of the key drivers behind the... changes at Facebook. Cambridge Analytica Scandal: The data of around 87 million Facebook users was harvested by the company Cambridge Analytica (CA).

Source: Daily Mail December 06, 2018 00:34 UTC