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/ …
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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.”
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“Delete access” meant that if you deleted a message from within Spotify, it would also delete from FB.
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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 ….
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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.
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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.
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Whataboutism
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Facebook is a social control tool, and it criminally sells our data, transforms users into laboratory mice with macabre experiences, and manipulates our political and marketing choices.
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Yeah I don't want Alexa to read my damn emails either.
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can sum1 help me plz
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