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Facebook reveals growth slowing & revenues down post Cambridge Analytica: share price plummets

This is a guest post by Jeremy Leggett. Views are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of MyGridGB or Dr Andrew Crossland.

3m Europeans have quit (of 282m European users). Market cap $119bn down (19% – biggest ever one day drop). Zuckerberg fortune $17bn down.

Brent Thill, an analyst at banking group Jefferies:“many investors are having a hard time reconciling that deceleration” in revenues. “It just seems like the magnitude is beyond anything we’ve seen, especially across a number of the tech [companies] we cover.”

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