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Creepy truth: Users convinced Facebook is 'listening' to conversations

Everyone I meet these days has a story about Facebook "listening in" to their conversations.

They'll be discussing something relatively obscure that they haven't ever searched for online and, hey presto! Within hours, an advert for that exact product pops up in their news feed.

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