Facebook has reported a 63pc increase in quarterly profits, with the under-pressure social network giving no evidence that the Cambridge Analytica row has halted its breakneck growth.

Mark Zuckerberg’s social network revealed that revenues in the first quarter of 2018 had risen to $12bn (£8.6bn), a 49pc increase on the same period a year earlier.

The number of people using Facebook each month hit 2.2bn, surpassing analysts’ expectations and suggesting the #deletefacebook campaign that followed the company’s privacy row had done little to dent user numbers. Profits reached $5bn, up from $3.1bn a year ago.

The social media giant has been battling one of the biggest crises in its 14-year history since it emerged last month that millions of users had had their data compromised and obtained by Cambridge Analytica before 2015.

87m users’ private details such as likes, religious beliefs and relationship statuses are believed to have been collected.