From: The Verge - Tuesday Mar 20, 2018 02:01 pm
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If you haven't been paying attention, Facebook is kind of on fire right now. And while there are a ton of major social, political, technological, ideological, ethical, and financial ramifications of what's going on at Facebook, this could be an opportunity for some of Facebook's more beleaguered competitors to step up.

What I'm saying is, somebody call Tom.

- Chaim

TODAY ON THE VERGE

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+ An inside look at how toxic management drove away Telltale Games' best developers

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+ PODCAST: The new episode of Why'd You Push That Button? discusses taking selfies in public

+ Circuit Breaker Live is back today! Join us to talk about Fortnite, digital avatars, and Wear OS watches live on YouTube at 4PM ET

TODAY IN "OH GOD, WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING WITH FACEBOOK?"

+ Cambridge Analytica's “psychographic” profiling tools don't hold up to science

+ Things are snowballing into a PR disaster for Facebook

+ Facebook is under an FTC investigation over how it handles user data

+ And Mark Zuckerberg is being asked to testify in the UK

+ In related news, how to completely delete your Facebook account

+ Or if you want to take less drastic action, how to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data

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