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Isn't this a violation of FTC rules?
by amyjess 8y ago
Isn't this a violation of FTC rules?
- p49k 8y agoConsidering that they seem to have blatantly violated their 2011 consent decree with the FTC and nothing happened, I doubt they care. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-19/former-ftc-technologist-says-facebook-violated-consent-decree https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-19/former-ft...
- cjhopman 8y agoOnly if you interpret what they are saying in the way that they intended you to, despite the fact that it's not what they are explicitly saying. When they say "Facebook were disguising ‘sponsored posts’ as regular posts", all that means is that Facebook changed something in such a way that Adblock Plus was no longer detecting it as a "sponsored post". It doesn't mean that sponsored posts looked the same to users as regular posts.