There were lots of shocking stories in Sarah Wynn-Williams' "Careless People," an exposé of her time as Facebook's public policy director. One that we haven't seen highlighted much: the company tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies "so that it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," Wynn-Williams says. In 2017, The Australian alleged that Facebook had a pitch deck for advertisers claiming 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." Here's more from Futurism.
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