throwaway987666

I work for Facebook.

Most of internet articles about Facebook is complete trash and over exaggeration. And most HN commenters are paranoids.

There are no leaks because there’s actually nothing to leak. Thousands of engineers routinely perform thousands of experiments on different features (including both UI and data), and there’s no mastermind who designs or even approves all these changes. Sometimes bugs happen, sometimes bug in data handling happen (like tables joined which are not supposed to be joined).

Also, I don’t know about Facebook’s significantly slimy practices. Facebook collected my phone number and matched it to something? I don’t care, because the worst can happen is I will get more interesting ads. I know that Facebook (despite these endless accusations on HN) does not sell data, my credit card won’t be stolen, I won’t get unwanted phone or email spam, and that’s good enough for me.