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		hn_throwaway_99 on Feb 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data > As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users. That is false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

CivBase on Feb 9, 2021 [–]

Nevermind. I thought it was a browser extension. I was not aware of the "Open Graph" platform. Thank you for the correction.

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