Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal

Facebook close down its Research and Onavo methods after TechCrunch uncovered how the corporate paid youngsters for root get admission to to their telephones to realize marketplace data on competition. Now Facebook is relaun…
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaun…Original article
Author: Josh Constine

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  4. "After eBay, Visa, Stripe and other high-profile partners ditched the Facebook -backed cryptocurrency collective, Libra scored a win today with the addition of Shopify". (February 21, 2020)
  5. "Facebook has diverted from its policy of not fact-checking politicians in order to prevent the spread of potentially harmful coronavirus misinformation from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro". (March 31, 2020)
  6. "Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook apps navigation bar thanks to a new option called Shortcut Bar Settings". (November 11, 2019)
  7. "Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles. After news was deleted from the News Feed. Once more, Facebook dangles extra traffic, and journalism outlets leap through its hoop and into its cage. Tomorrow, Facebook will unveil its News tab". (October 25, 2019)
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  9. "Facebooks internal Supreme Court cant set precedents, cant make decisions about Facebook Dating or Marketplace, and cant oversee WhatsApp, Oculus, or any messaging feature, according to the bylaws Facebook proposed today for its Oversight Board". (January 28, 2020)
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