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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by mirimir on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:24PM (#19395894)
> ... then neither should the hate be justified?

The hate is because they collect so much data, and share and sell it so carelessly. Google collects at least as much data, for sure. But as far as I know, they just monetize it through their ad services, and don't actually provide it to others.

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by bryan_w on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:02AM (#19396724)
Facebook doesn't sell data either. They monetize it just the same as google
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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by fjbarrett on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:02PM (#19411733)
Just 3 days ago, an investigation into Facebook data sales started. The NYTimes posted an article about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/technology/facebook-data-...

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Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox by justtopost on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#19400794)
That has been shown over a dozen times to be false.
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