Skip to content
TrackPodcasts
technologyOct 16, 201530:44pending

Why Does Facebook Suggest You Friend Your Tinder Matches?

About this episode

When you log into Facebook, you'll see a list of "suggested friends." They're full of people you went to high school with, random colleagues, and a bunch of people that you do sort of know ... but why does Facebook know that you know them?

Motherboard contributor Kari Paul talks to us about her investigation into how Facebook and other social networks learn things about you that you've never purposefully given them access to. Short Circuit editor Nicholas Deleon talks to us about watching the Democratic presidential debate in virtual reality, and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai discusses why

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get every episode summarized

Each time Radio Motherboard publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

Hosts & guests

No transcript yet

This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.

Why Does Facebook Suggest You Friend Your Tinder Matches?

Radio Motherboard

0:00
30:44

More episodes

More from Radio Motherboard

View all episodes →