Facebook wants you to believe that the scraping of 533 million people’s personal data from its platform, and the dumping of that data online by nefarious people, is something to be “normalised.” A blundering Facebook public relations operative managed to send a journalist a copy an internal document detailing the antisocial network’s strategy for containing the leaking of 533 million accounts – and what the memo contained was infuriating though unsurprising. Belgian tech journalist Pieterjan van Leemputten asked the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company some questions about the theft and dumping online of account data earlier this month.

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