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		</div><p>Nick Clegg has been asked by Britain&#8217;s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee to explain contradictions in Facebook evidence given by senior social network executives to MPs.</p>
<p>DCMS Committee chairman Damian Collins has demanded “truthfulness” on the social network’s knowledge of third-party applications violating the platform’s policy through selling or improperly using consumer data.</p>
<p>A letter to the former deputy prime minister – who is now Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications – highlights alleged inconsistencies in the tech giant’s responses.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have today written to Nick Clegg requesting clarification regarding oral evidence provided to <a href="https://twitter.com/commonscms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CommonsCMS</a> by Facebook <a href="https://t.co/0a731R277b">pic.twitter.com/0a731R277b</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Damian Collins (@DamianCollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/DamianCollins/status/1151803865601323008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The committee claims that Facebook representatives – vice president of policy solutions Lord Richard Allan and global policy director Kevin Chan – previously acknowledged the company was aware of such violations.</p>
<p>Speaking to the International Grand Committee on November 27 2018, Lord Allan said: <em>“We have taken action against a number of applications that failed to meet our policies.</em></p>
<p><em>“Those policies cover a range of issues, both the behaviour of the application and their use of data… there have been other applications that we have disabled.”</em></p>
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<div>However, the letter to Mr Clegg claims that Facebook has since denied allegations of knowing about the issue, in response to a complaint filed by the Washington DC Attorney General.</div>
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<p>The committee also said it is waiting on a list of applications taken down for policy violations from Lord Allen.</p>
<p><em>“It is vital that Facebook is held to account for inconsistencies between evidence it has given here and its denial of allegations in the United States,”</em> Mr Collins said.</p>
<p><em>“We’re asking Nick Clegg to confirm the truthfulness of the evidence given to us by Lord Allan and by Facebook’s global policy director by providing the DCMS Committee with a list of all applications that were removed for violating platform policy, as promised to us last November.”</em></p>
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