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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    As more Facebook revelations emerge, will users stop sharing?

    We learned this week that 87 million users might have had their data compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The original estimate was 50 million.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Apr 6, 2018 • 1 min read

    We learned this week that 87 million users might have had their data compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The original estimate was 50 million. Facebook also secretly deleted Mark Zuckerberg's chats on Messenger, and it requested patient data from hospitals. What does all this mean for our lives on social media?

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