I’m impressed at how obvious of a lie this is and how hard they’re trying to do mental gymnastics to justify their argument.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    they don’t sell your data. advertisers just pick out the target audience and meta places the ads for them. This is the way google and meta have been doing ads for a while. Actually selling your data is illegal.

    They still use your data to push ads so it’s a violation of privacy. Just wanna get the facts straight.

    Unless there’s been some leak recently I’m unaware of?

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    20 hours ago

    To be fair they’re not actually lying, they are misrepresenting the truth. Facebook actually doesn’t sell your data to third parties because they lease temporary access to it instead. Selling the data would mean they couldn’t recapitalize it with the same customers.

    Meta’s customers couldn’t use it to skip doing their own market research and need to already know who they want to advertise to before they buy ads with Facebook. (It does provide insights and analytics about demographics during a campaign as well)