Freaked Out Over Facebook? Here's How to Check Your Privacy Settings

After reports that up to 50 million Facebook users' data was used without their permission, many are taking time to look at their privacy settings on social media platforms.

Cambridge Analytica — a social media monitoring firm that previously claimed to help get President Donald Trump elected — reportedly gained access to data from Facebook users' accounts and wielded it to create a "psychological warfare" tool, according to a former privacy policy expert at Facebook.