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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by azernik on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:58PM (#22428876)
This is not a dystopian fantasy; it's exactly how intelligence agencies map out terrorist groups' and foreign militaries' structures online. Israel is supposedly particularly good at this kind of analysis, but I'm sure other countries are doing it.
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by rhizome on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:13PM (#22444919)
You have to wonder what kinds of non-employee access are a part of the Facebook web application. That is, perhaps Israel's edge is that they have an (made-up) Investigator version of FB when they log in.

I figure everything down the left aside on FB corresponds to a permissions bit for each entry, so maybe some classes of user get some really fun items over there.

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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by lonelappde on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:28PM (#22429097)
And all the "males of fighting age"
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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by azernik on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:50PM (#22430572)
We can get heuristics with lower false positives these days.
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