Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security
Facebook does not seem to have hired bright people over the years. Everything turns into a mistake or crisis for them, always opposed to the interest of their user community.
Twitter admits it is shadow banning tweets
Shadow banning is common on social media, including newspaper comments. Rather than outright ban a comment, the media publisher hides the comment from everyone except the person who wrote it. In this way, the comment author is unaware that they have been censored.
Nice explanation of how propaganda messaging works
“A good cause makes a lie easier to buy”. This is why many propaganda campaigns use themes such as “for the children” – even though their claims are exaggerated or not true. The target buys the propaganda message since its for a good cause.
Social media has become a weapon of mass destruction #socialmedia #facebook
Social media has become a weapon of mass destruction.
The role of social media and propaganda in the terror attacks in New Zealand
Social media played a huge role in the terror attacks in New Zealand.
Fake reviews now being written by bad AI software
Fake news, fake reviews – its all the same after a while. Any web service relying on user contributed content has devolved into the noise of fake posts. Now, AI is being applied to writing fake reviews, in an attempt to get around the AI code that seeks to detect fake reviews.
YouTube bans comments on most videos with minors appearing in them
AI didn’t work to filter everything: Youtube to ban comments on most videos featuring children under 18 (and perhaps others).
The end of #Youtube user generated content and comments?
Youtube just axed comments from tens of millions of videos featuring children – such as, you know, actual family friendly videos – and says they will not run ads on videos that may have “inappropriate comments”. In effect, to make Youtube family friendly, Youtube has just killed off family friendly channels.
“The secret lives of Facebook moderators”
Severe mental health issues come with being a moderator for Facebook wacky posts.
Non-Facebook apps collect sensitive personal data and send it to #Facebook
Facebook’s business is spying on people. Even if you do not have a Facebook app installed on your device, they still collect data via third-party apps.
Facebook’s ad platform let’s you target ads to Nazis – seriously
Use Facebook advertising to target your ads to Nazis and white supremacists because … Facebook!
Fear is a powerful motivator in propaganda messaging: How its used to sell third party solar
Third party companies offer to install solar PV arrays on your home and promise to save you money on your monthly electric utility costs. Bloomberg found they use a mix of false assertions, lies, cherry picking and fear as sales methods, to persuade homeowners to sign up and lease the solar PV system for decades. Over time, the lease costs increase such that the homeowner spends far more in the future, while the third party company collects large government subsidies. Few homeowners understand what they got in to. When they go to sell their home, the lease is transferred to the buyer – in effect, TPO solar PV arrays become a dead weight on the home’s future sales potential, particularly to informed buyers who understand the game.
NYPD says Waze app must censor what it presents
NYPD never heard about this radical notion of the “First Amendment” apparently.