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Facebook critics want investigation, regulation after data misuse

This file photo taken in November 2017 shows the Facebook logos. A data company has been accused of hacking into Facebook users' accounts. [AFP]

Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within US Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users' data starting in 2014.

Facebook disclosed the issue in a blog post on Friday, hours before media reports that conservative-leaning Cambridge Analytica, a data company known for its work on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was given access to the data and may not have deleted it.

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