Facebook said “tens of thousands” of applications associated with roughly 400 developers have been suspended from its platform since it began its investigation of app developers in March 2018 in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Vice president of product partnerships Ime Archibong said in a Newsroom post Friday that “millions” of apps have been addressed by Facebook’s investigation.
He clarified that apps being suspended was “not necessarily an indication that these apps were posing a threat to people,” noting that many of the affected apps were not live, and that developers often create multiple test apps that are never released to the public.
He added that in some cases, apps were suspended because developers never responded to requests for information.
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