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		privateSFacct on Sept 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Pr... I'm curious - why is facebook required to promote a competing social network? Did snap promote facebook properly on its network?

airstrike on Sept 23, 2019 [–]

> I'm curious - why is facebook required to promote a competing social network?

They aren't required to promote, but arguably also can't actively find ways to prevent it from trending "organically" as that could ostensibly constitute an anti-competitive practice

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