H4cked Off: The strange world of 'personal' Facebook adverts

Danny Palmer
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Facebook's definition of 'targeted' advertising is well wide of the mark, says Danny Palmer

Social media advertising is big business nowadays, and of the two top sites, Twitter and Facebook, one is doing it right, while one is doing it very, very, wrong. Twitter recently announced "int...

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