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Facebook may have known it was defrauding children+families through its games
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- kempbellt 8y agoHonestly, the title of this article makes me not want to read it. $BIG_COMPANY maybe did a thing on purpose. Big companies do all kinds of things that we can speculate on. Wait until it is confirmed to call it news
- smt88 8y agoIt's confirmed to be intentional by internal Facebook docs and emails that were made public by a class-action lawsuit. Furthermore, an employee proposed a fix for the "friendly fraud" that was rejected by management.
- dccoolgai 8y agoWhat a shame. I like to think if I ever saw anything like this as a software engineer, I would try to stop it.
- tareqak 8y agoPost of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823 .