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Re:Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails publi... by bawolff on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:22PM (#21475778)
To do what precisely? Separate the advertisment unit from the socialnetwork aspects of the bussiness? How would that work, the advertisement portion is what generates revenue for the social media product.

Usually companies get split up so they cant use their dominance in one area to forcibly move into another area. But advertisements in facebook social network isnt a separate product-its what the social network is selling

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Re:Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails publi... by paganel on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:08PM (#21477260)
> To do what precisely? Separate the advertisment unit from the socialnetwork aspects of the bussiness?

We can start by separating FB into at least two (preferably three) different social networks. I'd be pleased to see IG becoming an independent, separate company, and at some point after that maybe the same thing could happen for Whatsapp. If there is the political will this thing is doable, but this is a pretty big "if", I agree.

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Re:Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails publi... by reaperducer on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:37PM (#21475946)
Separate the advertisment unit from the socialnetwork aspects of the bussiness? How would that work

The same way it works for millions of other companies that aren't Facebook?

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