Facebook's Zuckerberg Responds to Cambridge Analytica's 'Breach of Trust'

The platform is auditing apps from the past

After five days of silence from Facebook’s top management over issues arising from misappropriation of Facebook user data by outside sources, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to audit all apps that had access to user information prior to a company change of policy in 2014.

In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg today addressed the ongoing crisis facing the company since the British firm Cambridge Analytica and a team of researchers reportedly accessed information from as many as 50 million Facebook users several years ago without consent.

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