Facebook annual DAUs

How many users did Facebook have in 2013?

Facebook annual DAUs

Year Monthly active users
2011 417 million
2012 552 million
2013 699 million
2014 829 million

How much did Facebook earn from Cambridge Analytica?

Facebook has agreed to pay about $643,000 to a U.K. data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

What happened between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?

In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising.

Did Cambridge Analytica steal Facebook data?

In early 2018, Facebook and a political data-analytics firm named Cambridge Analytica were implicated in a massive data breach. Personal data from over 87 million Facebook users had been improperly obtained by the political data-analytics firm.

How many people use TikTok?

TikTok annual users

Year Users
2017 65 million
2018 133 million
2019 381 million
2020 700 million

Who gets the $5 billion Facebook fine?

Facebook’s record-breaking $5 billion fine is required by law to go straight to the U.S. Treasury. The money goes to the department’s general fund.

Is Cambridge Analytica illegal?

The former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the disgraced data company that worked for the 2016 Trump campaign and shut down in 2018 over a voter manipulation scandal involving masses of Facebook data — has been banned from running limited companies for seven years.

Does Cambridge Analytica still exist?

The company closed operations in 2018 in the course of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, although firms related to both Cambridge Analytica and its parent firm SCL still exist.

How did Cambridge Analytica violate our data rights?

The most important source of the data was Facebook. Via a third-party app, Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data from up to 87 million Facebook profiles – including status updates, likes and even private messages.

Is Facebook for old people?

It’s official: Facebook is for old(er) people. Teens and young adults are ditching Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as popularity among the over-55s surges, according to a report.