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Here's the gist of the Facebook lawsuit: Rankwave allegedly sucked in Fb data with an app for checking your "Social Influencer Score", then used it to help clients target you with ads techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/fac…
Rankwave openly promoted its ability to extract contact info & ad targeting from Facebook data. When Fb got suspicious, it took 9 months to act. Both failures show why Fb buried this news friday night techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/fac…
Disturbingly similar to Cambridge Analytica's personality quiz, Rankwave sucked in Facebook user data with a "get your Social Influencer Score" app
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Uber finally launches the Quiet Driver Mode I suggested! techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/ube… tip @techmeme
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This is one of the most important pieces I’ve ever written. The FTC must free the social graph techcrunch.com/2019/05/12/fri…
The ultimate way to coerce Facebook to treat users better is to require it be easy to bring your friendships when you switch social networks 2/
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Instagram finally gets serious about cracking down on anti-vax lies tcrn.ch/2HaEhCs
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Facebook’s past 15 months have been pure hell. Trapped by its own pathologies, the company careened into a period of backstabbing, scandals, record earnings, reboots, and resignations. Time bombs, planted by Facebook’s prior choices, exploded everywhere 1/ wired.trib.al/xN4kXEE
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