Facebook security chief's brutally honest leaked email reveals how distraught the company was about being used by the Russians

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• A leaked memo has cast more light on Facebook's discomfort at being thrust into the frontline of nation-state cyberwarfare.
• Alex Stamos, Facebook's outgoing chief security officer, said having to be more transparent about state interference has been "uncomfortable," according to the email obtained by BuzzFeed.
• Stamos said he deserves as much blame as anyone else for Facebook being slow to notice and stamp out Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

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Just days after Mark Zuckerberg came clean about Facebook's failings on Russian interference, a leaked memo has cast more light on the firm's discomfort at being thrust into the frontline of nation-state cyberwarfare.

In an interview with Recode, Zuckerberg said Facebook was "too slow" and "overly idealistic" about the social network's power for good to notice that the Kremlin was interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

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