Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger

Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by alaaf on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:02AM (#13220344)

> the free content ad network failed to disclose

Interesting they don’t call it a ‘social network’. ‘content ad network’ is more accurate in my opinion.

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by robert_foss on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:11AM (#13220432)

Maybe we should adopt the term? "Content ad network" does have a certain ring to it.

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by gooseus on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:25AM (#13220576)

I concur, even before there was widespread corporate advertising my impression of "social networking" was that it was more about advertising your personal activities and beliefs to your network than actually socializing within it.

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by solotronics on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:05AM (#13221019)

social advertising

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by Solinoid on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:55AM (#13220883)

I believe that was coined by theregister.co.uk ^1, a fine source for quality wordplay and tech news/opinion. Unfortunately fondleslab never took off for tablet.

^1 I may be wrong

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by hood_syntax on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:24AM (#13221228)

Ooh, fondleslab is a good one.

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Re:Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger by amelius on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:07PM (#13222874)

No it is a telecommunications network.

As per the law, ads and content-snooping don't belong on it.

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