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Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has apologised for what he's described as a major breach of trust which saw milllions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy. British firm Cambridge Analytica is accused of using the data to influence the 2016 presidential election in the United States, as well as in Britain's Brexit vote.

A Facebook glitch is changing accounts of some users to memorial pages. (AAP) Source: AAP