Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook | Carole Cadwalladr

The social media giant is still a law unto itself. Can anybody hold it to account?

Half a billion Facebook users' accounts stolen. Personal information compromised. Telephone numbers and birth dates drifting across the internet being used for God knows what. And for four days, from Facebook's corporate headquarters, nothing but silence.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it is. This week saw reports of a massive new Facebook breach and everything about it, from Facebook's denials of the words data" and breach" to its repeated refusal to answer journalists' questions, has been uncannily reminiscent of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.