Is Facebook listening to me? Why those ads appear after you talk about things

Facebook denies it screens your conversations to serve you ads for your News Feed. So what does it in reality do? And why are there such a lot of coincidences?
Facebook denies it monitors your conversations to serve you ads on your News Feed. So what does it really do? And why are there so many coincidences?Original article
Author: Jefferson.graham

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