The data machine: What Facebook knows about you - and how it uses your information

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The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been one of the biggest crises to hit Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg since the company was founded 14 years ago. But the episode has also led many users to re-evaluate their relationship with the social network, and question exactly what they are sharing.

Credit: Illustration by Ella Bates-Hermans

Facebook's app and website use a multitude of data points and sources to obtain information about its users. While that data is never sold on, it can be shaped, prodded and moved to build up a picture of users that is far more detailed than what they might expect - or believe...

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