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Is Facebook Liking Posts on a Users' Behalf?
Is Facebook overstepping its boundaries by scanning private messages in order to "like" links on a user's account?
Facebook reported last week it now has over a billion users. Is the company now overstepping its boundaries with its new tactics? According to a report on TechRadar.com, the organization has been shown to scan old posts and likes, sometimes of a private nature, in order to "Like" things on a user's behalf. Users have reported "proved" that its been occuring, with one even placing a video of the action on YouTube. The video has since been removed from the popular video-posting website. According to Gizmodo.com, employees proved that the likes do increase, but they say a Facebook spokesman said it is only to bump up an items likes, and that it won't per se show you, the user, liked it. "Although messaging will auto-increase a page or link's …
