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Facebook isn’t worth using anymore, thanks to the Cambridge Analytica problem

By Siraj Hashmi
Published March 19, 2018 2:50pm ET
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Facebook isn’t worth using anymore, thanks to the Cambridge Analytica problem
A Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. | (Jeff Chiu/AP)

We didn’t need former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to tell us the obvious. Yet, he did.

On Saturday, Snowden criticized Facebook after the social media platform suspended Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

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