Twitter said it expects to pay up to $250 million to the Federal Trade Commission after the agency said its use of user data for targeted advertising violated a past settlement. The data misuse, which occurred between 2013 and 2019, saw Twitter take user phone numbers and email addresses gathered for security purposes to also inform its ad targeting. In 2011, Twitter signed an agreement with the...
Twitter Faces $250 Million FTC Fine for Data Misuse
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When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they’re likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO with different versions of a favorite question: What’s the latest on making money from Reels, Meta’s answer to TikTok? It’s a delicate topic inside Meta. After three years of work on Reels—a feature on Instagram and Facebook that shows...
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