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Yeah, they have been doing lot of shady things in other countries way before US criticism of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Read the controversial section. Even that is missing a lot and the citations are removed.

Facebook has been used for genocide, mass cultural appropriation, raising anti-ism sentiment, etc by military, government and terrorists.

They don't employ enough moderators likely intentionally in many regions. African continent has less than a 100.


Facebook ticks all of those?

It's banned on china.

https://sustainability.fb.com/

No proof on privacy issues but certainly neither seem saint.

Any other concrete examples?


That's good to hear.

It seems to me that FB is still a little short on ecological engagements. At least, compared to Google.

So, room for improvement.

About privacy concerns, for example: FB is not guaranteeing anything about not mining your private messages. What I find when googling it does not reassure me neither.


Facebook's privacy policy spells out what they use as sources of data for ads and messages are not on that list.


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