• 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Social media platforms may not make money in the traditional sense of sales or monthly purchases, but they harvest users data and that on itself is worth a bunch of money, not to mention having the ability to continually harvest more data.

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      8 months ago

      Selling that data is part of the not making profit. Aka they would need to get much more money for the data or sell a lot more. Advertisements are where most of it come from for most companies

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        8 months ago

        Sure, most social media companies like Facebook might sell users data as anonymous indicators for advertising on their platform, but are you sure that Truth Social isn’t just whole selling users data as datasets with uncensored data info to data brokers?