Facebook knew of Russian data gathering in 2014, UK lawmaker says

Previously, Facebook has said it was unaware of this sort of Russian activity on the social network until after the 2016 election. Damian Collins, head of a committee of British lawmakers investigating the impact of fake news, said he had reviewed an email from a Facebook engineer highlighting suspicious Russian-linked data harvesting on Facebook two years before that.

from Hindustan Times - world http://bit.ly/2KAH9Zp
https://ift.tt/2zbki14