Try to think of the most embarrassing private conversation you’ve ever carried out on Facebook Messenger. According to The New York Times, several large companies could have read that if they wanted to—including Netflix. Netflix responded to the charge with a jokey tweet, saying it never asked for, or accessed, users’ private messages—but the Times claims otherwise, and followed up with a new report that further details the kind of access that the social network gave Netflix and other companies.

According to the Times’s initial report on Tuesday, Netflix was among the companies allowed to read, write, and delete users’ private messages; Facebook also allowed it and other companies to view all the participants on a message thread. A representative for Netflix told the Times that the company only used its access to allow users to recommend films and television series to their friends.

In a cheeky initial response to the Times’s report on Twitter, Netflix wrote this: “Netflix never asked for, or accessed, anyone’s private messages. We’re not the type to slide into your D.M.s.” Then the Times tweeted out a still of this statement, with a link to the report, writing, “Netflix said it didn’t have access to Facebook messages, but Facebook documents show Netflix had the ability to do just that. Netflix then acknowledged that it did access personal messages, but only for sending and receiving movie and TV recommendations.”

The new report, published Wednesday, notes that when Netflix promoted its recommendation feature in 2014, it framed the tool as a private alternative to sharing one’s viewing preferences publicly. But the Times also reiterated its findings from the initial report: in addition to being able to send Facebook messages from user accounts, the company was also able to read, write, and delete them. A representative for Netflix told the Times that the company had not been aware Facebook had granted it such privileges, and reiterated that it only used its access for the recommendation feature. (That sharing tool was deactivated about a year after its launch, although the Times notes Netflix was still able to access private messages as of last year.)

In a statement, a representative for Netflix told V.F., “Over the years, we have tried various ways to make Netflix more social. One example of this was a feature we launched in 2014 that enabled members to recommend TV shows and movies to their Facebook friends via Messenger or Netflix. It was never that popular, so we shut the feature down in 2015. At no time did we access people’s private messages on Facebook, or ask for the ability to do so.”

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