

Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp Surveil, Monetize User Data: FTC
In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the biggest social media and streaming companies in the world, including Twitch owner Amazon, Facebook (now Meta), YouTube, Reddit, WhatsApp, Twitter (now X), Snap, Discord and TikTok’s ByteDance, to share how they used their users’ personal information. On Thursday, FTC staff released a 129-page report, which found that these companies all “harvest