Facebook employees discussed Cambridge Analytica and other third parties using Facebook data in ways that may violate the company’s policies, according to documents released by Facebook and the District of Columbia’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the scandal. The communications took place three months before The Guardian first reported Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of Facebook data. (CNBC)

Talking point: U.S. and U.K. regulators continue to press Facebook on when it first knew about the scandal, and some have questioned whether Facebook’s evidence has been inconsistent. The company publicly testified that it learned through The Guardian’s reporting that Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University academic, had sold user data—collected by an app created by his company, Global Science Research—to Cambridge Analytica in December 2015. Facebook said the December 2015 article and the September 2015 emails are two distinct issues in a blog post published on Friday. The post, titled “Document Holds the Potential for Confusion,” said the September communications involved “unconfirmed reports of scraping,” while the December report involved Kogan’s violations. The company said the released document “proves the issues are separate” and that “conflating them has the potential to mislead people.”