Meta, Facebook's parent company, agreed to pay $725 million to settle a 2018 lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, such as Cambridge Analytica, to access users' private data.
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If you are connected to any social network (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Youtube) you have already noticed that a series of videos are displayed in your feed without you clicking on them or even searching for that content. These are Bic Techs' autoplays, directed by algorithms to our networks, dragging our attention into a looping of clips, for hours and hours. Is this healthy? Vetch? Does it cause anxiety and depression? Increases radicalization and extremism? The subject returns to the debate provoked by an article by influencer/Youtuber Felipe Neto, published in JOTA this Friday (5).
In an interview with Estadão, Stokel-Walker recognizes that TikTok has challenges in the future. However, he believes that the platform will remain at the top of app downloads for a long time. In addition to the algorithm's power to understand everything users like, its creator, the Chinese technology giant ByteDance, learned from the mistakes of rivals, such as Facebook.
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“It went bad” for Mark Zuckerberg? Facebook was condemned by Secretaria Nacional do Consumidor (Senacon) to pay a fine of R$6,6 million for leaking data from Brazilian users.
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