Jun 28th 2016
Tech Break 2766
Facebook Says "It Was Just a Test"
Signals Facebook uses to suggest friends
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Kashmir Hill of Fusion's Real Future joins Megan Morrone and Scott Johnson from The FrogPants Network to talk about what signals Facebook uses to suggest friends. Facebook told Hill that they were using location information to suggest friends, but when she wrote about it in Fusion they retracted their statement and said that they used location to suggest friends as a test...and they don't do it anymore. Read Hill's article:
http://fusion.net/story/319712/facebook-now-says-phone-location-not-used-to-recommend-friends/
Full episode can be found at twit.tv/tnt/1544
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