Re:Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
by thotaway on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:26PM
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FarmVille had the benefit of being owned by an early Facebook investor, Mark
Pincus. It was favoritism all around.
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Re:Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
by zzzeek on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:33PM
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And Peter Thiel, who was a funder of Cambridge Analytica [1], sits on the board of Facebook, and he also worked directly on the Trump campaign. So there's some extremely fertile ground for favoritism there as well.
[1] https://mashable.com/2018/03/22/facebook-peter-thiel-cambrid...