According to the attorney general for Washington, D.C. employees at Facebook raised concerns about Cambridge Analytica accessing company data three months earlier than CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a public statement in March 2018. A Facebook spokesperson denies that the company made a misleading statement. (The Guardian)

Talking point: The revelation shows that the company was aware of Cambridge Analytica’s data-scraping practices long before it acted on them—and that it misled lawmakers about its knowledge of the matter. According to a Facebook spokesperson, the concerns raised in September 2015 were about a separate instance of data misuse—redacted in court filings—by Cambridge Analytica, and not the incident where data on 87 million users was accessed. Meanwhile, Germany’s justice minister said on Friday that she didn’t expect such “frightening unprofessionalism” from Facebook after it acknowledged a glitch exposing the passwords of millions of users to its employees.