Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo

- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

more details in the 2nd article : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly820v99ppo

Partnership with China is not surprising news but categorically targeting vulnerable teens...

Most Facebook executives didn't allow their own children on Facebook - according to Ms Wynn-Williams. "They had screen bans. They certainly wouldn't allow them to use the product."

And yet she says reports from 2017, external - that the company had been using algorithms to target and categorise vulnerable teens - were true.

"The algorithm could infer that they were feeling worthless or unhappy," she alleges.

The company - which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp - could, she claims, identify when a teenage girl had deleted a selfie on its platforms, and then notify a beauty company that it would be a good moment to target the child with an advert.

Ms Wynn-Williams says she "felt sick" at the thought and tried to push back, "although I knew it was futile".

"They said: 'The business side thinks this is exactly what we should be doing. We've got this amazing product, we can get young people, which is a really important advertising segment.'"

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Like Tobacco companies targeting Teens with Vapes. Yes, that's real too.

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Don’t let your loved ones on Facebook.