Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg goes on the defensive: 'We don't sell people's data'

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founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, defending his company once again, and hitting out at "misreported" claims that the social network sells user data.

The article, which is just over 1,000 words long, seeks to explain the reasoning behind Facebook's targeted advertising model and clear up confusion around its handling of people's personal information.

Zuckerberg said that the lack of a price tag on Facebook's service has become an area of "complexity" when it comes to trying to understand its business model.

By Ryan Browne.

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