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New documents show that Facebook has never deserved your trust — EFF

A member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament published a trove of internal documents from Facebook, obtained as part of a lawsuit by a firm called Six4Three. The emails, memos, and slides shed new light on Facebook’s private behavior before, during, and after the events leading to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, writes Bennet Cyphers and Gennie Gebhart.

Here is the link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-documents-show-facebook

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