The social media company announced changes to its community standards, releasing internal review guidelines and allowing appeals of content removal decisions.
The social media giant will ask users worldwide if they want to continue sharing data for ads as well as personal information such as political and religious leanings and relationship information.
The former FBI director's favorability ratings dropped a net of 11 percentage points overall since last month, as Trump and conservatives ratcheted up attacks on the ongoing investigation.
Facebook users in Illinois argue that the company has violated their privacy rights under state law and the damages could amount to billions of dollars.
Following revelations from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony Tuesday and Wednesday, reporter Julia Angwin shares the ways Facebook and other companies collect data — and how to prevent them from doing so.
The tech company spent $200,000 to oppose the measure, but reversed course on Wednesday following CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
Regulators, and sometimes the public, still have a tough time getting a handle on just what Facebook is. And that makes it difficult to determine just which laws should govern it.
The Facebook CEO was grilled by members of the House of Representatives on Russian disinformation campaigns, third-party access to user data, abuses of Facebook's platform and other topics.
Alexander Tayler, acting CEO, is stepping down, according to a statement from the Cambridge Analytica board of directors. The firm is at the heart of a scandal involving the use of Facebook data.