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Facebook to Release Its Own Exclusive News Shows
Facebook is getting into the news business by creating its own shows with CNN and Fox News, among others. – CNBC
Facebook will pay media companies to produce the shows, and some of them will run mid-roll ads, a.k.a. commercials, to help publishers (and Facebook) make some extra money. – Recode
Facebook User Data Sold to Manufacturers
Over the last decade, Facebook gave at least 60 major device manufacturers, including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung, unprecedented access to user data as part of a data-sharing partnership programme. – NYT
Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress about whether users have “complete control” over who sees our data on Facebook. This needs to be investigated and the people responsible need to be held accountable. https://t.co/rshBsxy32G
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) June 4, 2018
Moreover, Facebook gave some companies special access to additional data about users’ friends, including phone numbers and friend links, beyond May 2015. The whitelist deals were struck with companies including Royal Bank of Canada and Nissan Motor Co. – WSJ
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