[kylecazar]

What is being claimed here?

'granted programmatic access to FB user's inboxes' could mean a lot of things. What privileges? I read the article and still can't tell.

I don't believe that Meta allowed Netflix to read messages that a user sent or received, but that seems to be what they're implying.

[chatmasta]

Agreed. I would like to read more details about the "access to the Titan API" that Facebook gave to Netflix. Has anyone read the lawsuit PDFs? Maybe more details are in there somewhere.

[rvba]

For me it sounds that they read the messages to measure sentiment (what people are watching / what they like and dislike / what they recommend / generic information about competition from other rv shows, movies and video games), but probably the system was "bugged" (plausible deniablity) so those with access could read everything they wanted - be it messages made by employees from some competitor startup, or perhaps partners and sweethearts. Creepy stuff.

[bicepjai]

An exec can interpret different meaning rather than a technical person. I assume that as full access to read the messages