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Month: April 2018

For years, #Facebook hosted groups with 300,000 members, focused on committing cybercrimes #DeleteFacebook

For years, #Facebook hosted groups with 300,000 members, focused on committing cybercrimes #DeleteFacebook

Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years. Source: Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members…

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#Facebook profile photos used to create huge facial recognition database #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook profile photos used to create huge facial recognition database #DeleteFacebook

Surveillance is us, 24 x7: This Israeli surveillance juggernaut is sitting on a massive database of faces taken from Facebook and YouTube, all feeding facial recognition tech for national governments. Source: These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database

#Facebook is designed to “reward content that elicits emotion” #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook is designed to “reward content that elicits emotion” #DeleteFacebook

Because emotionally roused viewers are more susceptible to advertising messages: The service’s algorithm, designed to reward content that elicits emotion, made it a perfect tool for Russian propagandists to spread disinformation during the 2016 election. Source: Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope – Bloomberg Nice to see others recognizing that Facebook emotionally manipulates people.

#Facebook ad sales team told politicians that FB can “hand them the election” #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook ad sales team told politicians that FB can “hand them the election” #DeleteFacebook

Until literally a few days before, this entire ad sales team at Facebook was literally telling every politician with any budget that Facebook can actually hand them the election. It is incredibly disingenuous and strange for an exec to get up and say that there’s no way Facebook could have potentially impacted the election. Source: Antonio Garcia Martinez, former Facebook Employee Interview One of many Zuckerberg lies. It blew my mind when when the CEO of an advertising company (FB)…

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#Facebook used to brag about its ability to influence elections #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook used to brag about its ability to influence elections #DeleteFacebook

Facebook’s website had an entire section devoted to touting the “success stories” of political campaigns that used the social network to influence electoral outcomes. That page, however, is now gone, even as the 2018 congressional primaries get underway. Source: Facebook Quietly Hid Webpages Bragging of Ability to Influence Elections