Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war

Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by srcreigh on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:55PM (#28995542)

FB has exclusive possession/control of digital connections to most of your friends and family. Apple doesn't have network effects like FB. Network effects + high switching costs = monopoly.

Why doesn't FB let other businesses else access friend lists via API? or send people messages via API? Same with Google and all their data about you. They just can't do it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/50103448/1997590

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Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by _arthur_ on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:41PM (#28995820)

At one time, they did have a very permissive API. Which got abused by Cambridge Analytica.

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Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by bryan_w on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:26PM (#28996082)

Exactly, the second Facebook publishes a new API, no matter how many permission dialogues you have to jump through, the NYT will be champing at the bit to write another "data sharing agreement" story.

They love to take the most bad-faith reading of the API docs to say that Facebook is giving your data away (see their story about netflix/messenger, or Microsoft's Facebook client for Windows phones)

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Re:Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’... by srcreigh on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:21AM (#29001494)

The data is being abused by FB too. It's a little too convenient that a public scandal means FB is the only one who can use the data.

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