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Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy's majority ain't American?

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[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

In reference to the subject on Rossman's screenshot, that is an 8 year old scandal that was, AFAIK, never proven. What was proven, was an 11 year old report on emotional manipulation by then Facebook

[-] Tm12@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This was surfaced in Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book.

The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads