He Reported on Facebook. Now He Approaches It with Caution

Have you changed your use of social media after writing about some of the data practices of Facebook? Two years later, a lot of the criticism focuses on Facebook and Google — and Twitter is by far the social media platform I use the most. Once I started reporting deeply on Facebook, I deleted all Facebook-owned apps from my phone, including Instagram. I don’t know exactly who has access to the data those apps collect, but while meeting with confidential sources, I don’t want to risk that an app on my phone might be sending Facebook my location.

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