Posted on 10/04/2021 1:19:37 PM PDT by C210N
The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.
This constitutes the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date.
It is seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump, where 500 million users were affected.
(Excerpt) Read more at privacyaffairs.com ...
Yep, exactly.
Used to be in the “olden” days, the difference between conspiracy and reality was a few years.
Not too long ago, it was perhaps 3 months.
Looking more like days now.
Soon to be hours.
Drip. Drip. Drip.... FLOOD!!!!
Whistleblower says Facebook fed Capitol riot!
In this Sept. 16, 2021, photo provided by CBS, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen talks with CBS’ Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes,” in an episode that aired Sunday, Oct. 3.
Robert Fortunato/CBS News/60 Minutes via AP
Ex-Facebook manager alleges social network fed Capitol riot
A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests.
Frances Haugen was identified in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement that the company’s own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation.
Haugen, who worked at Google and Pinterest before joining Facebook in 2019, said she had asked to work in an area of the company that fights misinformation, since she lost a friend to online conspiracy theories.
“Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” she said. Haugen, who will testify before Congress this week, said she hopes that by coming forward the government will put regulations in place to govern the company’s activities.
She said Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump last year, alleging that contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol.
Post-election, the company dissolved a unit on civic integrity where she had been working, which Haugen said was the moment she realized “I don’t trust that they’re willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous.”
At issue are algorithms that govern what shows up on users’ news feeds, and how they favor hateful content. Haugen said a 2018 change to the content flow contributed to more divisiveness and ill will in a network ostensibly created to bring people closer together.
I’ve rarely used facebook and most of the info i put there was fake.
h/t pookie18's cartoons
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FB is back up minutes ago.
IMHO, I think bringing it back is the “hack”.
I view now up facebook as a short term thing, as the latest “hack” to bring it back online is negated.
According to FB I live in Mali, or Aleppo, Syria. inshallah. Used to get in heated debtes and sometimes the person all po’ed would start telling me I don’t know sh*t cause I don’t even live in the US...they lose.
According to FB I live in Mali, or Aleppo, Syria. inshallah. “
Well hi neighbor, greetings from Antartica!
Maybe I should have written planet Nibaru? Too many might agree:>)
I also like checking in for obscure events in different parts of the country.
A lecture on saguaro cactus in Tuscan , then a workshop 4 hours later on building lobster traps in Maine .
Gotta mess with their algorithm !!
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