Facebook tries to explain why companies could erase your messages

“In the past day, we’ve been accused of disclosing people’s private messages to partners without their knowledge,” Ime Archibong, Facebook’s vice president of product partnerships, said in a post on the company’s blog. “That’s not true — and we wanted to provide more facts about our messaging partnerships.”

The blog post — the second since The New York Times reported Tuesday that Facebook for many years gave more than 150 companies extensive access to personal data — focused narrowly on the contention in the Times report that emerged as the most controversial: that Facebook gave four companies access to read, write and delete users’ messages.

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