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Posted: 2018-12-28T20:52:01Z | Updated: 2018-12-28T20:52:01Z

Most Facebook users dont trust the site with their data, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Just 31 percent of Facebook users say they trust the company at least somewhat with their personal data, with 66 percent saying they dont trust it much or at all, and the remainder unsure.

Facebook has faced a series of high-profile controversies throughout 2018 , culminating with a recent New York Times investigation revealing that the site had given other tech companies significant access to users personal data without those individuals knowledge or consent.

Eighty-one percent of those polled say theyve heard at least a little about that story, although barely more than one-third were following it closely. Among those whod heard anything about the latest news, only 15 percent were even somewhat satisfied with Facebooks response, with 71 percent saying they were not very or not at all satisfied.

Facebook users skepticism about the site, however, isnt exactly a new development. The share of Facebook users who have at least some trust in the site is the same as in an April poll taken amid the controversy over Cambridge Analyticas use of Facebook data, and within a few points of the 35 percent who reported trusting Facebook as far back as spring of 2016 .

(One potential caveat: Everyone taking the YouGov poll opted in to answering questions about themselves online, which could plausibly be self-selecting for certain attitudes toward internet data and privacy.)