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Chilidog wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:47 pm Is there some kind of thing where you are limited to one post a day, now?
I wouldn't know. I have rarely broken the one post a month limit, or one post a quarter limit for that matter.
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Researchers find evidence suggesting that "Conservative Brief", a right wing Facebook page, may be engaging in pay-to-play arrangements with other conservative players on Facebook, in violation of Facebook's terms of service:

https://popular.info/p/how-an-obscure-f ... source=url
Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting. Nearly all of its articles are aggregations of Tweets, YouTube videos, or other media websites, presented with a far-right spin. Recent headlines include "More Damning Evidence Surfaces Against Hillary Clinton in Durham Probe," and "Trump Gives Love To Mike Lindell, Showers Him With Praise For The Good He Has Done." Conservative Brief has been cited repeatedly for publishing false claims.

Yet Conservative Brief has emerged in 2022 as a dominant force on Facebook. It has recently become more popular on the platform than the New York Times and the Washington Post.

How did this happen? Popular Information has uncovered evidence strongly suggesting that Conservative Brief is paying a network of large Facebook pages, including several controlled by prominent conservative political personalities, to post its content. This conduct, if it is indeed occurring, is in direct violation of Facebook's rules.

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The fact that all of these Facebook pages use UTM codes when posting Conservative Brief links strongly suggests that Conservative Brief is paying for traffic. That would explicitly violate Facebook rules which state that Facebook Pages "cannot accept anything of value to post content that does not feature themselves or that they were not involved in creating."
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In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, employees at Facebook tasked with preventing “potential offline harm” found themselves under siege by a mob of a different sort. Reports of abusive content from users were flooding in. As one employee put it in an internal forum, many of the flagged posts “called for violence, suggested the overthrow of the government would be desirable, or otherwise voiced support for the protests.” The same day, Instagram employees reported that there were “no existing” protections against an onslaught of inciting content in places like the app’s list of most widely used hashtags.

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer called on his staff to “Hang in there.” In response, employees began to openly accuse the company of fomenting the insurrection. One wrote, “We’ve been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn’t be surprised it’s now out of control.”

“Schrep, employees are tired of ‘thoughts and prayers’ from leadership,” another response read. “We want action.”

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As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media. We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook’s role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media’s role in modern history’s most troubling crises. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump’s mob attacked the Capitol, the results of a poll commissioned by Facebook itself showed what already felt anecdotally true to many: That a majority of Americans believed Facebook at least partly responsible for the events of Jan. 6.
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Just got a suspension for "hate speech"

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That word "idiots" is what did you in, I think.
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Ooooh. I hope I didn't hurt their fee fees.
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For saying Russians are idiots? Well, the Facebook mods must be Russian cuz that’s idiotic!

What’s next, calling someone a bimbo gets you banned from twitter?
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I got banned for calling someone "a little bit of an idiot" so...
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Phoenix520 wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:50 pm For saying Russians are idiots? Well, the Facebook mods must be Russian cuz that’s idiotic!

What’s next, calling someone a bimbo gets you banned from twitter?
My son got banned from twitter 5 or 6 years ago for calling someone a bimbo.
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Tell him to come sit over here by me…
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A cybercriminal stole 1 million Facebook account credentials over 4 months
A large-scale phishing attack was uncovered by PIXM, as well as the person who had been carrying out the attacks.

by Brian Stone in Security
on June 9, 2022, 10:03 AM PDT

As phishing attacks continue to be a go-to for threat actors, one scam found that a user had stolen a million Facebook account credentials over a span of just four months. Anti-phishing company PIXM found that a fake login portal for Facebook was being used as a stand-in for the social network site’s landing page, and that users were entering their account information in an attempt to log in to the site only to have their information stolen.

“It’s impressive the amount of revenue that a threat actor can generate even without resorting to ransomware or other common forms of fraud like requesting gift cards or emergency PayPal requests,” said Chris Clements, vice president of solutions architecture at cybersecurity company Cerberus Sentinel. “With enough scale, even actions like advertising referrals that result in pennies can add up to amounts that become compelling for cybercriminals to exploit.”

The phishing tactics used to steal Facebook credentials

When PIXM took a further look into the fake landing page, it found “a reference to the actual server which is hosting the database server to collect users’ entered credentials”, which had been modified from that of the legitimate URL, and led to a series of redirects. Also within the code, PIXM discovered a link to a traffic monitoring application, which allowed the anti-phishing company to view the tracking metrics. This led to PIXM uncovering not only the traffic information from the cybercriminals page, but also a host of other fake landing pages as well.

“People often underestimate the value of their social media accounts, failing to enable MFA and otherwise protect their accounts from cybercriminals. Unfortunately, when bad actors take over an account, it is often used to attack their own friends and family,” said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. “Through the use of a real account that has been compromised, bad actors will use the trust inherent in a known connection to trick people into taking actions or risks they normally would not.”

The links were later found to be originating from Facebook itself, as threat actors would gain access to a victim’s account, then send harmful links en masse to the victim’s friend group to cultivate more account credentials. Using services like glitch.me, famous.co, amaze.co and funnel-preview.com, the websites would deploy and generate URLs of the fake Facebook landing page, thus tricking individuals into entering and having their account information stolen.

After further investigation the attacks appeared to be originating from a threat actor in Colombia, along with the email address of the person carrying out the attacks.




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Meta is sued for collecting data on hospital patients
Collecting data through online portals when patients book appointments and more.

By Christina Maas
June 18, 2022Posted 10:19 am

Meta has been sued over allegations that sensitive medical data is shared secretly with Facebook when patients access the portals of some health-care centers.

The basis of the lawsuit is Pixel, a tracking tool owned by Facebook. The tool redirects patients’ private data without consent, which is a violation of state and federal laws, according to the lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court. The unidentified complainant is proposing a class action on behalf of millions.

We obtained a copy of the complaint for you here.

This week, news outlet The Markup published a report alleging that 33 of the hospitals in Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals use Pixel in the web portals. According to the lawsuit, at least 664 healthcare systems and providers use Pixel.

The plaintiff said he is a patient at a health-care facility in Baltimore and uses the facility’s portal to make appointments, communicate with providers, and review lab results. He is seeking punitive damages for invasion of privacy, violation of the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, breach of contract, and multiple other violations.

Meta’s help center page states: “If Meta’s signals filtering mechanism detects Business Tools data that it categorizes as potentially sensitive health-related data, the filtering mechanism is designed to prevent that data from being ingested into our ads ranking and optimization systems.”




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Meta is being sued for giving US hospitals a data-tracking tool that allegedly ended up disclosing patient information to Facebook

Samantha Delouya
Aug 2, 2022, 11:53 PM
  • A new lawsuit alleges that Meta has used people's medical data without permission for targeted ads on Facebook.
    This is the second recent lawsuit accusing hospitals of sharing sensitive patient data with Meta.
    According to the suit, one person was served ads for her heart and knee conditions based on her hospital patient portal.
A new lawsuit alleges that Meta has access to the private medical data of millions of people without permission and has used it to serve targeted medicine and treatment ads on Facebook.

The suit, which was filed last week in the Northern District of California, is the second such lawsuit that accuses US hospitals of providing Meta with sensitive patient information and violating HIPAA. The Verge originally reported on the suit earlier Tuesday.

The complaint says that these hospitals used Meta's Pixel tool, which then accessed patients' password-protected portals and shared sensitive health information that Meta then sold to Facebook advertisers.

Meta Pixel is a tool that allows businesses to measure and build audiences for ad campaigns.

In June, an investigation by nonprofit newsroom The Markup found that 33 of the top 100 hospitals in America use the Meta Pixel.

The complaint details the experience of one Facebook user who began receiving targeted ads for medication related to heart and knee conditions that she had entered in her private patient portal at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

Meta's policy says advertisers should not share data with Meta that they know includes health, financial information, or other categories of sensitive information. However, the lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly collecting this sensitive medical data from healthcare websites.



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Meta injecting code into websites to track its users, research says
Owner of Facebook and Instagram is using code to follow those who click links in its apps, according to an ex-Google engineer

Alex Hern
Thu 11 Aug 2022 19.11 BST

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been rewriting websites its users visit, letting the company follow them across the web after they click links in its apps, according to new research from an ex-Google engineer.

The two apps have been taking advantage of the fact that users who click on links are taken to webpages in an “in-app browser”, controlled by Facebook or Instagram, rather than sent to the user’s web browser of choice, such as Safari or Firefox.

“The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers,” says Felix Krause, a privacy researcher who founded an app development tool acquired by Google in 2017.

In a statement, Meta said that injecting a tracking code obeyed users’ preferences on whether or not they allowed apps to follow them, and that it was only used to aggregate data before being applied for targeted advertising or measurement purposes for those users who opted out of such tracking.

“We intentionally developed this code to honour people’s [Ask to track] choices on our platforms,” a spokesperson said. “The code allows us to aggregate user data before using it for targeted advertising or measurement purposes. We do not add any pixels. Code is injected so that we can aggregate conversion events from pixels.”

They added: “For purchases made through the in-app browser, we seek user consent to save payment information for the purposes of autofill.”




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$80bn wiped from value of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta
Sell-off that began overnight continues after Mark Zuckerberg’s company reports halving of profits

Joanna Partridge and Kari Paul
Thu 27 Oct 2022 16.57 BST

Investors wiped $80bn (£69bn) off the market value of Facebook and Instagram’s owner, Meta, after Mark Zuckerberg’s company reported profits had halved during the third quarter as advertisers reined in spending amid the global economic downturn.

The 25% tumble in Meta’s share price since Wednesday evening has knocked billions off the personal wealth of Zuckerberg, its chief executive and largest shareholder.

The sell-off began during overnight trading after a downbeat results presentation, and continued when markets reopened on Thursday. It was one of the most dramatic devaluations Wall Street has seen since investor confidence in Silicon Valley stocks began to crumble at the start of the year.

Meta’s shares briefly dipped below $100, taking them to their lowest level since 2016, with investors unconvinced by Zuckerberg’s bet that his company’s future lies in the metaverse, a virtual reality world that users will experience through its Oculus headsets.

With a 13% Meta stake, Zuckerberg has seen his net worth plummet by $90bn so far this year because most of his fortune is in the company’s shares. His holding stood at just over $125bn at the start of 2022, according to Bloomberg data, but its value has now fallen to $35bn.




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I don't think I'll shed any tears at Zuckerberg's losses.
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Can food stamps be far behind?
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pipistrelle wrote: Sat Oct 29, 2022 11:21 am Can food stamps be far behind?
Perhaps if his income falls enough he'll have to pay tax at a rate greater than the 1.1% he's enjoyed thus far. :violin:
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Facebook owner Meta to sack 11,000 workers after revenue collapse
Mark Zuckerberg says firm overinvested at start of Covid, adding ‘I got this wrong’

Alex Hern UK technology editor
Wed 9 Nov 2022 12.55 GMT

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is cutting 11,000 jobs, more than one in eight staff, after a disastrous collapse in revenue has left the company behind Facebook overstaffed and “inefficient”, the chief executive said in a note to staff.

However, Zuckerberg indicated he planned to continue backing the company’s controversial multibillion-dollar bet on virtual reality, saying the metaverse project was a “high-priority growth area”.

The first round of redundancies in the company’s history comes after its workforce peaked this year at 87,314.

In the note on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said Meta had overinvested at the start of Covid, banking that the increase in online activity would continue and accelerate even after the coronavirus pandemic ended.

“Unfortunately, this did not play out the way I expected,” he said. “Not only has online commerce returned to prior trends but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected. I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.”

The reference to “signal loss” is thought to relate to Zuckerberg’s long-running dispute with Apple, which in 2021 limited the amount of data, or “signals”, Facebook could gather about the behaviour of iPhone users. That loss, Zuckerberg has regularly said, made it harder for small businesses to use Facebook adverts to profitably acquire new customers.

The company is offering US employees severance pay starting at 16 weeks, Zuckerberg’s note said, as well as six months of healthcare support. Those on immigrant visas would receive help from “dedicated immigration specialists” but Zuckerberg acknowledged that the cuts were “especially difficult if you’re here on a visa”.



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Good. Go away. And take all your Twitter friends with you. In a few wash-rinse cycles, your shit-stain on this planet may disappear.
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busterbunker wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:40 am Good. Go away. And take all your Twitter friends with you. In a few wash-rinse cycles, your shit-stain on this planet may disappear.
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I will say again that I hope Google tries again with G+. It was my favorite of the social media platforms and I think it got short shrift.
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Wrong move…
Zuckerberg has suffered losses, but he could realign to take the Twitter peeps jumping ship from the Elon Dunning-Krueger moment…

Add hashtags, add verification (always should have been there, but for high ranking peeps, journalists, etc), threaded conversations…

They already understand how to handle large load communities, do videos, etc and there is the staff that Musk let go from Twitter.

It isn’t easy to get a platform really tuned— Countersocial and Mastadon will both be tedious until they figure it out.

Just my thoughts…
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Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook
Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has learned.

The data, sent through widely used code called the Meta Pixel, includes not only information like names and email addresses but often even more detailed information, including data on users’ income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts. 

The information sent to Facebook can be used by the company to power its advertising algorithms and is gathered regardless of whether the person using the tax filing service has an account on Facebook or other platforms operated by its owner Meta. 
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When users sign up to file their taxes with the popular service TaxAct, for example, they’re asked to provide personal information to calculate their returns, including how much money they make and their investments. A pixel on TaxAct’s website then sent some of that data to Facebook, including users’ filing status, their adjusted gross income, and the amount of their refund, according to a review by The Markup. Income was rounded to the nearest thousand and refunds to the nearest hundred. The pixel also sent the names of dependents in an obfuscated — but generally reversible — format.
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Even Intuit, the company that runs America’s dominant online filing software, employed the pixel. Intuit’s TurboTax, however, did not send financial information to Meta but, rather, usernames and the last time a device signed in. The company kept the pixel entirely off pages beyond sign-in.
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