>And yet she says reports from 2017, external - that the company had been using algorithms to target and categorise vulnerable teens - were true. "The algorithm could infer that they were feeling worthless or unhappy," she alleges.The company - which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp - could, she claims, identify when a teenage girl had deleted a selfie on its platforms, and then notify a beauty company that it would be a good moment to target the child with an advert.

End point capitalism? Pretty horrible, if true.