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by KNoureen 4774 days ago
Facebook is a private company and depends on income from advertisers to provide a "free" service. So in reality it is the advertisers who control Facebook I would say, and therefore have some weight to throw around.
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Facebook is a public company.
Parent might mean it's a private sector business not a public sector one.
They obviously have weight to throw around, but it seems really odd that they are getting into the arena, and then complaining about the conditions (even though they should have known what they were getting in for when they threw in).