Facebook信息泄露一时成为所有人声讨的对象，小到对私人用户的大量信息存储，大到用户信息被用于政治用途，方方面面都指向facebook的侵犯隐私式的信息存储。墨尔本文波PTE小编就带大家了解一下事情始末。
Cambridge Analytica says it’s commissioning a third-party audit to prove that it deleted the trove of data about Facebook users that has embroiled the data analytics firm in controversy.
a third-party audit: 第三方审查
trove of data: 被收集的数据
embroil：vt. 使卷入；使混乱
The scandal erupted last weekend when The New York Times and UK’s The Observer newspaper reported that Cambridge Analytica harvested data about more than 50 million Facebook users.
erupt：vi. 爆发；喷出；发疹；长牙 vt. 爆发；喷出
harvest data： 收集数据
The data “allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump’s campaign in 2016,” the Times reported.
exploit：vt. 开发，开拓；剥削；开采
a huge swath of: 大批、大片
electorate：n. 选民；选区
underpin: vt. 巩固；支持；从下面支撑；加强…的基础
facebook身陷囹圄，用户信息被采集去影响选票，扎克伯格一时也是有理说不清。
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/23/technology/cambridge-analytica-audit-facebook/index.html
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