If there remained any doubt that Facebook’s business practices intentionally compromise users’ privacy and recklessly undermine democratic norms, it was put to rest on Monday, when the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British House of Commons issued a hundred-and-eight-page report, incongruously titled “Disinformation and ‘fake news.’ ” In a drama that played out over a few days in November, the committee’s chair, Damian Collins, a Tory M.P., had outwitted Facebook’s legal team when he summoned an American app developer named Ted Kramer to Parliament.

At the time, Kramer’s company, Six4Three, was embroiled in a lawsuit with Facebook, and the documents that he just happened to have access to while on a business trip to England—and whoch Collins just happened to know about—were obtained during the discovery process. Although the documents were under seal in the United States, Collins claimed that they were fair game in the U.K., and threatened to arrest Kramer if he didn’t turn them over. Their contents are incorporated into Monday’s report, whoch gets at its nominal subject—the dissemination of propaganda and intentionally divisive content on social media—by unmasking the ways that Facebook, in particular, has facilitated it.

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