What social media companies don’t want you to know

Understanding how social media companies use our data

Meghan Wenzel
Geek Culture
Published in
8 min readJan 4, 2022

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A smartphone shows a folder of social media apps from Facebook to Instagram to Twitter.
Photo by Tracy Le Blanc from Pexels

Los Angeles nonprofit, Data 4 Good, hosted a panel discussion around social media in their ongoing series How Data Impacts My Life. It was a thought provoking evening that explored how social media platforms impact our lives, how we all can better protect our data, and how we might move…

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Meghan Wenzel
Geek Culture

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