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There's a huge gap between sharing a post and having that be replicated and consumed or archived elsewhere by other users/hosts, and having that same post processed against a giant pile of other data specifically to de-anonymize it. The first one is, yes, just normal use of public information. The second is more like spying, and since we know Facebook does stuff like that, being apprehensive specifically about them is justified.


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