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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by loeg on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:30PM (#28546340)
> Anyone with money and a modicum of technical expertise can make a messaging platform. The hard part is monetization.

Facebook has clearly cracked the monetization problem.

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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by discordance on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:24PM (#28546789)
Whatsapp’s opex was $13.5m with a revenue of $15.9m before they were acquired. [0]

0: https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/

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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by sudosysgen on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:40PM (#28546408)
Yes, in a way that cause this quagmire.

Anyways, the post I replied to was talking about the machinery, not the monetization.

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