Facebook intentionally crashed its Android app to test user loyalty, report says

Maybe there’s something to that popular piece of Internet wisdom that if you’re not paying for a service, you’re the product.
According to a report in The Information, that’s exactly how Facebook treated a group of its users by intentionally crashing the Android app (on a very small subset of users) to test whether or not they’d still use the social network.
This specific incident actually happened several years ago, and was part of Facebook’s contingency pla