Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators

Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 10 November 2019
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The piles of leaked documents, which directly reference the company's questionable position on competition, are likely to be extremely helpful to the dozens of entities currently investigating Facebook on antitrust grounds.

The documents seem to confirm two long-held, popular suspicious about Facebook. First, it treats user privacy as an afterthought at best. And second, it works hard to prevent competitors from getting too powerful.

Ignoring privacy and attacking competition: just what everybody already knew.