“…in 2017 The Australian alleged that the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit ‘moments of psychological vulnerability’ in its users by targeting terms like ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ " ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless,’ and ‘like a failure.’

The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, ‘so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment,’ according to Wynn-Williams.”

https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads

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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

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@reillypascal@hachyderm.ioLet's not forget that the famous privacy-breaching and disgusting Facebook, originally named Facemash, was created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 with the main purpose of comparing the attractiveness of Harvard's female students.

#reminder #abusive_techbros #fuckability #facemash #facebook #techno_feudalism #digital_exploitation