On the same day Facebook announced that it had carried out its biggest purge yet of American accounts peddling disinformation, the company quietly made another revelation: It had removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government.
https://www.wral.com/facebook-says-russian-firms-scraped-data-some-for-facial-recognition/17912141/
https://www.wral.com/facebook-says-russian-firms-scraped-data-some-for-facial-recognition/17912141/