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Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World. <[link removed]> ProPublica identified thousands of Marketplace listings and profiles that broke the company’s rules, revealing how Facebook failed to safeguard users. by Craig Silverman, A.C. Thompson and Peter Elkind

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