Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of the company's investigation in response to the Cambridge Analytica row.

The suspended apps are associated with about 400 developers, Facebook said, adding that it is not necessarily an indication that these apps were posing a threat to users.

Facebook Inc made the announcement today saying it acted as part of the company's ongoing app developer investigation it began in March 2018.

Earlier this year, the company agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices.

Facebook has said: "Our App Developer Investigation is by no means finished. But there is meaningful progress to report so far.

"To date, this investigation has addressed millions of apps. Of those, tens of thousands have been suspended for a variety of reasons while we continue to investigate."

The FTC privacy probe was triggered last year by allegations that Facebook violated a 2012 consent decree and inappropriately shared information of 87 million users with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook has since agreed to boost safeguards on user data and has put curbs on the amount of information that third-party developers can request from platform users.

The company said in a blog post: "We're making progress. We won't catch everything, and some of what we do catch will be with help from others outside Facebook."

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