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has revealed its strategy for dealing with the leaking of account details from 533 million users.
It suggests the social network expected more such incidents and was planning to frame it as an industry problem that was a normal occurrence.
It also said the media attention would die down.
As a result it planned to issue limited statements about the issue.
Facebook confirmed the memo was genuine and told the BBC: "We understand people's concerns, which is why we continue to strengthen our systems to make scraping from Facebook without our permission more difficult and go after the people behind it."