The Facebook emails
Ben Werdmuller,
Dec 05, 2018
The Facebook emails (250 page PDF) have been publiched. To me the only thing surprising is that anyone is surprised. Fart of the reveal is that Facebook traded access to data in exchange for ad spending (aka 'neko'). At least one Canadian bank is mentioned (RBC Royal Bank) as being "one of the biggest neko campaigns ever run in Canada" (p. 123). Another part of the reveal is that Facebook would block access to companies if they were getting competitive - for example, when they cut off Vine's access to the API the day it enabled 6-second videos. This is why we can't have nice things.
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