Facebook Again Tries to Clarify When It First Knew About Cambridge Analytica

Social network disputes timeline of events

Facebook ramped up the semantics in its latest attempt to address its long-simmering Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Vice president and deputy general counsel Paul Grewal said in a Newsroom post Friday that the company has made heavily redacted internal emails from 2015 public at the request of District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine.

Racine filed a lawsuit against Facebook last December over the company’s user data collection and protection practices, specifically mentioning Cambridge Analytica.

Grewal said the document made public Friday “has the potential to confuse two different events surrounding our knowledge of Cambridge Analytica,” insisting that there are two distinct issues: data scraping (accessing or collecting public data via automated means) and the unauthorized sale of user data.

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