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https://www.europeanscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/url-46.jpg960614As a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social network has been under fire from its critics. The group's stock market value plunged by 100 billion and it is under growing scrutiny for helping spreading fake news. Facebook shouldn't, however, be Mecca for disinformtion.