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Links in private messages increase 'Likes', admits Facebook

A report on The Next Web had author Emil Protalinski share that a video submitted to Hacker News by...

October 05, 2012 / 13:25 IST

The Next Web's Emil Protalinski states that a video on Hacker News by Killswitch.me depicts that sending a link to a user’s private message increased the Like count by a number or two on the link’s origin site. This may mean that the social networking giant is peering into private user messages, looking for shared links to web pages with Like buttons, in a bid to increase the number of Likes on those pages. 

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first published: Oct 5, 2012 01:20 pm

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