way now according to a former staff member of britain's cambridge analytic up the personal data of about fifty million facebook accounts was misused during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on facebook has announced a thorough investigation on what went wrong c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is facing some serious questions. facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight as much as the next guy had least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytical was using a data leaked to spy on fifty million of facebook's uses but facebook failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light people like chris wiley former