That’s a lie:

One, it escalates the emotional tone of Facebook’s response — on Friday, it called Cambridge Analytica’s actions “unacceptable”; today they are an outrage. Two, the statement frames the story as a deception in which Facebook was not the bad actor but the victim. Three, it buys the company time amid growing demands to hear from Zuckerberg himself.

Source: Mark Zuckerberg is ‘working around the clock’ on the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook says – The Verge
One of the co-founders of Cambridge Analytica is now an employee of Facebook.
The medium is the problem, not the messages.