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by bobdole1234 2986 days ago
Releasing that information means those advertisers no longer need Facebook to do the ad targeting. They can then use other exchanges to do targeting without paying Facebook anything.

It is in Facebooks interests to guard that information carefully.

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Yeah, and sharing it with the political partiy it thinks deserves to win the next election; even if it otherwise guards it carefully.

There's a reason why we have the separation between the head of state, the Church, Congress and the federal courts.