Facebook handily beat analysts’ expectations on both the top and bottom line for its first quarter of 2018 – sending its stock jumping.
The social network’s quarterly revenues grew 49% year-on-year to $11.9 billion, showing that advertisers seemed largely undeterred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The results are some much-needed good news for the California company, which has been in damage control mode for weeks, fighting to contain the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and reassure users.
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