Facebook: Were Not Liking Brand Pages For You

Facebook users may hand-pick brand pages to Like on the site, but a series of new reports suggest that the social network has been auto-Liking some additional pages based on links sent to friends.

However, Facebook told Mashable it is not auto-Liking pages for its users and isn't invading anyone's privacy.

It's been widely reported on Thursday that Facebook is scanning messages sent to others with attached links to better gauge their interests and add to a brand's Link count. Although clicking on a link will add to the Like number on a brand page, it's used only on the back-end for publishers to see the analytics of articles and shared URLs.

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