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Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by bogomipz on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:33PM (#17614450)
How about the fact that Zuckerberg was summoned to Washington to testify before Congress and failed to disclose the ongoing data-sharing agreements FB has with 60 or so device manufacturers?[1]

In addition to willfully misleading Congress it also likely violates their 2011 FTC consent decree[2]. Is this also just part of the 'media narrative' you claim is different from reality? I think these revelations amount to pretty "scammy behavior" as well, to borrow your terminology.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-gave-some-companies-ac...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...

Re:Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast... by miracle2k on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:05AM (#17616073)
It's exactly what the parent seems to be writing about. What they are saying is that the WSJ article is highly misrepresentative, that rather than there being a "data sharing" agreement, it would be more correct to say that Facebook hired them to program an app; and that app, installed on the device of the users, communicates directly with the Facebook servers, thus sharing no data with anyone.