Facebook Suspended Thousands of Apps for Violating Policies
- Move stems from Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018
- Investigation into third-party app developers still ongoing
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Facebook Inc. has suspended “tens of thousands” of third-party apps that were using the company’s developer tools as part of a review Facebook started following the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal from early 2018. The number of suspended apps was at 400 in August 2018.
“To date, this investigation has addressed millions of apps. Of those, tens of thousands have been suspended for a variety of reasons while we continue to investigate,” Facebook wrote in a blog post Friday. Not all of these apps were necessarily abusing or selling user data. Many were not “live” when they were suspended, and in other cases, apps were suspended after developers didn’t respond to Facebook requests for more information.