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Facebook denies it ‘listens’ to conversations when probed on relevancy of ads

on Oct 29, 2017 | 0 comments

By Jessica Goodfellow

Two Facebook executives took to Twitter this week to deny the social network listens to its users conversations in order to target advertising based on what they say after a podcast surfaced a series of complaints about the over-relevancy of Facebook advertising.

PJ Vogt, the presenter of a tech podcast called Reply All, asked Twitter users to call in on Thursday (26 October) if they believed that “Facebook uses your mic to spy on you for ad reasons”. Many users then detailed examples of when they mentioned something they were going to buy to a friend, only to see Read full story ›

Source: The Drum