Internal email reveals Facebook's plan to 'normalise' data scraping

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The company intends to deflect criticism by framing scraping as a broader industry issue

An internal email sent accidentally to a journalist by Facebook has revealed the social media network's intent to label data scraping incidents as a 'normalised, broad industry issue'. In the em...

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