Facebook vs. Apple feud: Social networking site calls out Tim Cook by name

Dalvin Brown | USA TODAY

There's been drama bubbling beneath the surface between Facebook and Apple for quite some time. The latest bit of evidence comes straight from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who called out Apple CEO Tim Cook by name in an official statement Thursday.

In a lengthy blog post, Facebook said that "Tim Cook has constantly criticized our business model and Mark has been equally clear he disagrees."

"We've long encouraged our employees and executives to use Android because it is the most popular operating system in the world," Facebook said.

The dig was issued in response to a New York Times report about how Facebook has responded to a string of privacy scandals. One of the claims that struck a cord said that Facebook was slow to respond to Russian bots on the platform. The Times' story contained "a number of inaccuracies," according to Facebook.

In April, in an interview with Recode, Apple's CEO said he would never allow people's data to be stolen the way Facebook has in recent years.

"The truth is we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer. If our customer was our product, we could make a ton of money," Cook said. "We've elected not to do that. You are not our product."

Zuckerberg responded in an interview with Vox saying, "I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth."

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