Facebook suspends another data mining firm on alleged links with the US government

Facebook suspended a data badysis company whose contracts with the US government may have violated its policies on how public data on users can be collected and shared.

Crimson Hexagon has contracts with several US government agencies. as well as the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society, which has links with the Russian government.

The news was reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal which says that Crimson Hexagon has at least 22 separate contracts with the US government. agencies totaling more than US $ 800,000 ($ 1.1 million).

In a statement, Facebook said that it takes allegations seriously and suspended Crimson Hexagon applications while it is investigating The social media giant has apologized for having used the information collected from its users to target them for political purposes, after the discovery last March of a British advertising marketing company, Cambridge Analytica, who had worked for President Trump's campaign and was involved in the hijacking of 87 million Facebook user data.