Facebook is agreeing to pay $10 million to a charitable fund to settle a Northern District of California suit surrounding its Sponsored Stories ads. The case had been settled last month but details haven’t been made public until the weekend.
The 'Holy Grail' of advertising
Sponsored Stories launched back in January of 2011 and they allow Facebook to monetize your Likes, Posts, and Check-Ins by selling them as ads on your friends’ timelines. For example, Angel Fraley — a Plaintiff in the case — "Liked" Rosetta Stone’s Facebook profile in order to get some free demo software. Her user name ("Angel Frolicker," a pseudonym) and profile picture then showed up on her friends’ Facebook pages with the caption "Angel Frolicker likes...
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