(MENAFN) Facebook Inc. is facing new demands for regulation from the US Congress, and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users' data starting in 2014.
The inspection showed a new threat to Facebook's reputation, which was already under attack over Russians' alleged use of Facebook tools to influence American voters before and after the 2016 US elections.
According to the social media platform, the root of the problem was that researchers and Cambridge Analytica lied to it and abused its policies, but critics on Saturday threw blame at Facebook as well, demanding answers on behalf of users and calling for new regulation.
Facebook insisted the data was misused but not stolen, because users gave permission, sparking a debate about what constitutes a hack that must be disclosed to customers.
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