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...aaand facebook starts to buy news pieces to justify their ad network. this is nothing more than a press-release for their atlas feature. A new low even for
by gcb0 12y ago
...aaand facebook starts to buy news pieces to justify their ad network.
this is nothing more than a press-release for their atlas feature. A new low even for wired.
- tzs 12y agoOdd. It seems unusual for a press release to include criticism from the EFF. How would the article have to have been written for you to not think it was a press release?
- wdewind 12y agoI feel like PG's submarine piece has really made HN's view of PR very black and white. There are a lot more gradations, and likely this is a piece that was pitched by Facebook and actually was moderately investigated by Wired. The worst journalists are copy pasting press releases, the best are finding their own stories, but the vast majority lie somewhere in between. And I'm not convinced there is anything wrong with that.
- cpeterso 12y agoCriticism? The EFF comments were practically praising Facebook: From the outside, says Adi Kamdar, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it seems Facebook is “doing a good job” anonymizing personal info as it seeks to link online and offline behavior. Facebook is adamant that its system can’t be cracked—i.e. can’t be used to match names from Facebook accounts with behavior off of Facebook—and Kamdar says he has no reason to believe otherwise.