> I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing...

If true, was this by design, to have plausible deniability, much like the willful ignorance on the part of the military top brass when it comes to massacres etc.?

Regardless, some lack of coordination seems real even as now the scandal unfolds:

> Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media... [https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/]