[olliej]

Facebook does monitor - and sell - all user data.

You don’t get to say “we will read your messages to sell ads, we will straight up sell your message history to other companies, but no we can’t do anything to protect users from trivially detectable scams.

[delfinom]

That's really stretching the definition of sell.

They used to actually sell your days to select groups.

Now they sell advertiser ads based on your data but the advertiser does not get to see said data.

[olliej]

It sounds to me and others like they literally sold people's messages to netflix: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-let-netflix-...