Facebook suspends yet another analytics company

Get the Full StoryStop me if you've heard this one before: Facebook allows a third-party analytics company access to user data, conducts poor oversight of said company, and then is caught flat-footed when asked about the situation by a journalist.

Yeah, it's happened again. And no, you're not crazy for getting that Cambridge Analytica d j vu. Facebook was forced to suspend Boston-based Crimson Hexagon today after the Wall Street Journal reported on the company's contracts with a Kremlin-tied Russian nonprofit and the U.S. government.

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