In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge. That's not true – and we wanted to provide more facts about our messaging partnershipshttps://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-partnerships/ …
-
-
These experiences are common in our industry — think of being able to have Alexa read your email aloud. Here’s an example of how it worked if you used Facebook on Spotify:pic.twitter.com/2Zryf4Ck0R
Show this thread -
At the time, in order for you to write a message to a FB friend from within Spotify, for instance, we needed to give Spotify “write access.” For you to be able to read messages back, we needed Spotify to have “read access.”
Show this thread -
“Delete access” meant that if you deleted a message from within Spotify, it would also delete from FB.
Show this thread -
The partnerships were experimental and ended years ago. But we publicized the features then because we wanted people to use them: https://mashable.com/2014/09/02/netflix-adds-facebook-sharing-controls/#nYwpFEUExPqc ….
Show this thread -
They were clear to users and only available when people logged into these services with FB. We had strict rules in place over how partners could use APIs and what data they could and couldn't access.
Show this thread -
No third party was reading your private messages, or writing messages to your friends without your permission. Some stories have suggested we were shipping over private messages to partners, so we wanted to clarify a few things.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.