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Calls for Facebook regulation, probe after political group misuses data of 50 million users.

Facebook Inc confronted new calls for control from inside US Congress and was hit with inquiries concerning individual information shields on Saturday after reports a political expert increased unseemly access to 50 million clients' information beginning in 2014.

Facebook unveiled the issue in a blog entry on Friday, hours before media reports that traditionalist inclining Cambridge Analytica, an information organization known for its work on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential battle, was offered access to the information and might not have erased it.

The examination exhibited another risk to Facebook's notoriety, which was at that point under assault over Russians' charged utilization of Facebook instruments to influence American voters when the 2016 US decisions.

"It's unmistakable these stages can't police themselves," Majority rule US Representative Amy Klobuchar tweeted.

"They say 'believe us.' Check Zuckerberg needs to affirm before Senate Legal," she included, alluding to Facebook's President and an advisory group she sits on.