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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:51AM (#26079651)
> As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users.

That is false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by CivBase on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:58AM (#26079771)
Nevermind. I thought it was a browser extension. I was not aware of the "Open Graph" platform. Thank you for the correction.
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