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There is no more important talking point in Facebook’s lobbying and PR arsenal than “we don’t SELL our users’ data” going back to 2010. This is important as their core biz model is surveillance capitalism monetized by micro targeted advertising. So a question for tech press… 1/5
Why is that the tech press continues to avoid stating the data was sold when they report on the scandal when Facebook knowingly covered up that their personal data was improperly sold to a third party? Is Facebook PR that good??? Twelve different press outlets JUST TODAY. 2/5
Here are four more MAJOR outlets TODAY related to the largest data privacy class lawsuit in FB’s history announced JUST last night. None say the data was “sold.” 3/5
Making my point one last time…here are yet again four more MAJOR outlets. None say the data was “sold.” For years, press would tell me it was only alleged and the contract didn’t prove the Facebook data was sold for money. 4/5
Here is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself in deposition under oath to the SEC in the transcript that was finally unearthed and unsealed this week. He states “SOLD THE DATA.” Yea, this matters because it means Facebook leadership knew the data was sold and covered it up. 5/5
#SlavaUkraïni @jasonkint Hi Jason - good to see you on here as well! 
Re: that quote: What it explicitly says, though, is that the "app developer" sold it, not Facebook - no? Not sure how that quote helps the argument. 
@wurstsemmel If 1) they knew it was sold, 2) it was done by an intermediary set up by the purchasing party, 3) Facebook hired the seller on to its payroll/staff, this would all matter, yes? Sounds like it was laundered to me.
@jasonkint Don't know... To me, it sounds more like they were kind of impressed by what he had done, and probably, they also felt some guilt and wanted to minimize the liability of him saying certain things at the wrong time.
@wurstsemmel @jasonkint 
This FB data dump just before XMas (great job FB PR!) sounds exactly like a data laundering operation combined with a corresponding money laundering operation. I don’t know how you cannot at least mention this. None of this was accidental, they knew or should have known what was going on, then they handed the guy a profit. What happened to journalism?
@wurstsemmel @jasonkint my thoughts exactly. I would not be shocked by a revelation that Facebook did sell data - they did explicitly embed their employees with far right groups to teach them how to use Facebook for propaganda. But this does not say they sold data.
It says data was sold by a third party and they punished that third party for it.