Facebook totally regrets threatening to sue the journalists who broke Cambridge Analytica story

This week Mark Zuckerberg is all about contrition. Last week? Not so much. 

While the Facebook CEO continues his non-apology apology tour in an effort to stop the Cambridge Analytica-related bleeding, his company had a very different take on the scandal-in-waiting just last Friday. Specifically, its lawyers threatened to sue the news outlet reporting the story. But now Facebook totally regrets that. Totally. 

Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, tried to make this very clear Thursday at the FT Future of News conference — noting that it was "not our wisest move." Read more...