Facebook gives advertisers information on what brick-and-mortar stores its users patronize.
Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them
How Facebook helps shady advertisers pollute the internet.
Facebook Wants to Help Sell Every Ad on the Web
Facebook will help marketers show ads to non-Facebook users who visit websites and applications in its Audience Network ad network.
What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? | Hacker News
Facebook tracks virtually every website you visit, as well as usage data from many apps, even if you aren't logged in to facebook or don't have an account. We use this data, and tie it to your identity whenever possible, so we can charge advertisers more money.
How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases
It has happened to you, and it has probably happened more than once. But you may not have realized why. And you may not have known you were helping to change online advertising and, well, advertising in general. Chances are, you’ve bought a hat or a scarf or a Christmas ornament at a department store \[…\]
98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you
Facebook built the world's best ad platform by tracking your behavior online and off it.
Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone
Sheryl Sandberg borrows some concepts from the past to keep the money flowing at the world’s largest social network.
Facebook will target ads to people based on store visits, offline purchases, calls to businesses | MarTech
Facebook is using its online-to-offline ad measurement tools for offline-to-online ad targeting.
Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them — ProPublica
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
Selling You on Facebook
Many popular Facebook apps obtain sensitive information about users—and users' friends—so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity | TechCrunch
Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it's
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We've also tried Facebook marketing. In this blog post we describe our successes and failures with the marketing channel Facebook.
Who Makes Money From Facebook: Political Parties | Whattofix.tech
WHAT TO FIX’s Meta Monetization Archive reveals how Facebook has been – and continues to be – providing access to its monetization services to political parties.
The Facebook Files
Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (Published 2018)
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
Private Facebook Data Powering Ads Outside Of Facebook -- Is The World Ready? | TechCrunch
Because investors sure are. Facebook's share price jumped up 3.8% to $33.05 today on news that it's now showing its ads on Zynga.com in a revenue sharing partnership. Most amazingly, neither the press nor users seem to be freaking out that their private, personal data is now being used to target them with ads outside of Facebook. That means Mark Zuckerberg waited just long enough, proving he's even smarter than he used to be.
All the Ways You Can't Trust Facebook
As of June 2017, Facebook has over two billion active users. But despite superficial changes, Facebook also still has a problem respecting privacy and protecting your data.
