Facebook is a hard friend to dump, even when it has it coming.
The social network’s first-quarter report Wednesday afternoon showed that about 48 million daily active users signed up during the period. That was up 3.4% from the December quarter and was in line with Wall Street’s expectations. Assuming that at least some of them read newspapers, that alone was remarkable considering the scandal that erupted late in the period involving Cambridge Analytica that landed CEO Mark Zuckerberg before Congress and relieved the company...