Is Facebook Giving Away Religious Affiliations?

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CNN's John Sutter says he stands by his criticism of Facebook CEO Tim Cook. Zuckerberg said the social network has been giving away users' religious affiliations, sexual orientations and other sensitive data. The company is acting as a middleman for advertisers who want to target them with adverts but don't have access to their own personal information. "I think this is if you're not precise, the waters get muddied," Sutter says.

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery