Facebook: We did ‘a test’ last year using some people's location data to suggest friends

Facebook recently told Fusion reporter Kashmir Hill that Facebook uses location data to recommend friends.People freaked out. Facebook retracted the statement. Then, the social media giant said what, that's crazy, LOL, no. No, we didn't do that at all. Now, Facebook's communications team tells Hill the confusion arose "because there was a brief time when the social network used location for friend suggestions," which involved a small percentage of Facebook users and stopped last year.

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