Facebook Pushes Back Against Evidence Allegation in UK Probe (1)

Facebook Inc. insists it provided consistent evidence to a U.K committee investigating the company’s role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to an Aug. 12 letter the company sent to Parliament.

The letter from Rebecca Stimson, head of Facebook’s U.K. public policy, pushed back against suggestions made by Damian Collins, the head of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, that Facebook provided inconsistent evidence. Stimson said such an assertion “is not the case.”

Facebook is still under scrutiny in the U.K. and U.S. for its role in the now-defunct U.K. consultancy’s use of company data in the run-up ...