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While this story of Facebook smearing TikTok is getting all of HN's attention today, a perhaps more important story about Facebook is being ignored: https://ne
by greenyoda 5y ago
While this story of Facebook smearing TikTok is getting all of HN's attention today, a perhaps more important story about Facebook is being ignored:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855113
Summary: "A lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of overstating its advertising audience got a lot bigger Tuesday when a court expanded the pool of plaintiffs to include more than 2 million small ad buyers.
Dismissing what he called a “blunderbuss of objections” by the company, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the case can proceed as a class action on behalf of small business owners and individuals who bought ads on Facebook or Instagram since Aug. 15, 2014.
The decision is another setback for the social networking giant after court filings in 2021 revealed that its audience-measuring tool was known by high-ranking Facebook executives to be unreliable because it was skewed by fake and duplicate accounts."