The Facebook social network faces a fine of $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion from the US authorities, against the backdrop of the Cambridge University scandal.

According to a report published on the website "The Straits Times," citing representatives of "Facebook", a fine of about 5 billion threatens the company.

The company had earlier published that its profits had fallen by about 51 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.

Bringing the total losses to about 2.43 billion dollars and net profit fell to 3.3 billion dollars.

The losses coincided with the expectations of US analysts polled, who said the cause of the losses was directly linked to the Cambridge scandal, which illegally used 87 million people in the campaign.

Facebook said more than 87 million people had been hacked and mistakenly transferred to the company.