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Thoughts on Apple versus Facebook

December 17, 2020

War against Apple by Facebook has officially begun, with the social media giant spending some of its user data-targeted ad revenue on a series of press ads against the computer company, presumably because using its own platform to spread such claims may fall foul of anti-trust law.

You are the product

Facebook is making the usual hyperbolic arguments around “standing up for small business” and “making sure the internet stays free,” though it isn’t entirely clear when Facebook became “the internet,” or why we as users aren’t paid for the provision of the personal data on which the social mediam company builds its business.

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