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Re:Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue J... by danso on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:24PM (#16630599)
A small point, but one that FB uses in its defense: it does not charge for API usage
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Re:Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue J... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:27PM (#16630632)
Because they know that apps make money through Facebook ads and they do charge for those. If Facebook knew about the true purpose of this sort of app, then they also knew that they were going to make a lot of money off of it.
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