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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, December 20th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

It's been a damning year for Facebook, and it got worse this week. On Monday, reports from the

Senate Intelligence Committee accused the company of dissembling about its knowledge of Russia's

efforts to divide Americans, suppress votes, and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election.

The next day, the New York Times revealed how Facebook gave other big tech companies extensive

access to users' personal data. On Wednesday, the Attorney General for the

District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the company for allowing the consulting firm, Cambridge

Analytica, which had ties to Trump, to buy the data of millions of Facebook's users.

When the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified before Congress earlier this year,

he vowed to restore control of private data to its users.

This is the most important principle for Facebook. Every piece of content that you share on

Facebook, you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it and you can remove it at any time.

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