Facebook has no idea what most of its user data is used for, leaked document suggests

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Facebook has no idea what most of its user data is used for, leaked document suggests
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Facebook has no idea what most of its user data is used for, leaked document suggests

Social media company Meta (earlier Facebook) does not know where all of its user data goes or what it does with it, according to a leaked internal document seen by Motherboard.

A leaked document appears to suggest that Facebook doesn't understand what most of its user data is used for. Facebook's Ad and Business Product team compiled the leaked paper, which goes back t...

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