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Facebook said the number of global users of the social network rose in the past quarter, helping lift revenues despite its legal entanglements [Image, AFP]
Facebook reported Wednesday that its quarterly profit plummeted due to the cost of a US privacy settlement and forecast that regulation would slow its money-making ad machine.
Profit in the second quarter fell 49 percent from a year ago to Sh270.4 billion (USD 2.6 billion) while revenues increased 28 percent to 1.8 trillion (USD 16.9 billion).
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