Facebook accused of contradicting itself on claims about platform policy violations

Prepare your best * unsurprised face *: Facebook is being accused of contradicting itself in separate testimonies made on both sides of the Atlantic. The chair of a U.K. parliamentary committee that spent the lion's share of last year investigating online disinformation, going on to grill multiple Facebook execs as part of an enquiry that coincided with a global spotlight being cast on Facebook as a result of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, has penned another letter to the company -- this time asking which versions of claims it has made regarding policy-violating access to data by third-party apps on its platform are actually true. In the letter, which is addressed to Facebook global spin chief and former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, Damian Collins cites paragraph 43 of the Washington, DC Attorney General's complaint against the company -- which asserts that the company "knew of other third party applications [i.e.