Facebook expects to be spanked real hard by the FTC for the Cambridge Analytica scandal

After word got out last year that 87 million Facebook members had their profiles sold to political consultant Cambridge Analytica without permission, the Federal Trade Commission started an investigation. After all, this action violated an FTC consent decree that Facebook signed off on back in 2011, promising not to use subscribers' personal data without consent.
Facebook also announced today that 2.1 billion people use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram on a daily basis, and 2.7 billion use one of these members of the Facebook family at least once a month. At the end of the three months that included January through March of this year, Facebook had $45.42 billion in the vault. That's after the company spent $3.96 billion on capital expenditures during the quarter.
For the first quarter of 2019, Facebook had $15.1 billion in revenue. That was up 26% from the $12 billion it raked in during the same quarter a year earlier. Net came to $2.4 billion (or 85 cents a share) against $5 billion earned during the first quarter of 2018. But those results include the $3 billion charge. Without the charge, Facebook would have earned $1.89 per share vs. the $1.69 it reported for the first three months last year.
Investors "liked" the report and gave it a big thumbs up. During the regular trading session, Facebook shares declined $1.20 or .65% to $182.58. After issuing the report, the stock surged 9.3% or $16.93 to $199.51 a share.
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