Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps
Found on BBC News on Monday, 23 September 2019
The company came under huge pressure in 2018 after it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had accessed many users' data without permission.
"Our review helps us to better understand patterns of abuse in order to root out bad actors among developers," the company's vice-president for product partnerships, Ime Archibong, said in a statement on Friday.
The abuse is done by Facebook itself who tries to gather all and every data about its users (and even non-users via shadow accounts) to sell it to advertisers and influence them. So instead of fighting the origin the cancer, Facebook just removed a few metastases.