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nojvek
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A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global polit...
Instagram did that. However for social networks you make money from ads, so they’re rotten in a different way.
jacquesm
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The hell they did. They took the money and ran.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/facebook-buys-instag...
nojvek
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I am dumb. I was thinking about Snapchat. Sorry.
thraxil
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What do you mean? Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1 Billion. So they literally looked the billion dollars in the eye and said "OK!"
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