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  1. Alex (avolkov@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 13:15:09 EDT Alex Alex

    "In the confidential memo, TBH’s founders told their new colleagues of “a psychological trick” that they employed to acquire teenage users en masse — a combination of scraping Instagram for high schoolers’ accounts, playing to youthful curiosity, and taking advantage of class dismissal hours."

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebooks-teens-tbh-psychological-trick-memo

    In conversation Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 13:15:09 EDT from mastodon.xyz permalink

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      Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
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      Facebook bought TBH last October and eventually shut it down, but an internal note shows that the company learned a way to target high schoolers through the viral polling app.
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