Facebook is holding an emergency meeting to talk about the Cambridge Analytica scandal - but Mark Zuckerberg isn't leading it

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• Facebook is holding an internal emergency meeting to discuss the unfolding Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal, according to The Verge.
• However, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg won't lead the meeting.

Facebook has been rocked since Friday's revelation that Trump-linked British data company Cambridge Analytica had obtained as many as 50 million Facebook profiles by abusing Facebook's data sharing features.

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The stock has plummeted over 9% since then, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has not addressed the public about the scandal - or even Facebook employees, according to a report in the Verge.

Facebook will hold an "open meeting" at 10 a.m. PT, according to the report, which will be the first time that Facebook employees have been able to ask questions of their bosses about the issues in a live setting.

The meeting will be led by Paul Grewal, the Facebook lawyer who signed the initial announcement about Cambridge Analytica's abuse.

Facebook employees are wondering why they haven't heard from Zuckerberg, according to the report, but they may get their chance on Friday, where he's expected to speak at an internal all-hands meeting. Facebook didn't respond to a request for more information.

But the scandal continues to move quickly, with the Federal Trade Commission said to be investigating the data leak, and Zuckerberg may need to take control of the situation enveloping his company before it spins even more out of control.

Read the full Verge report here and get caught up on the scandal here.