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  • Geri Halliwell WILL put on a brave face and appear on the Bahrain Grand Prix starting grid alongside her under-fire husband Christian Horner in show of solidarity after leaked text message scandal

    03/02/2024 5:40:33 AM PST · by Libloather · 17 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/02/24 | Chris Matthews
    Ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will join her beleaguered husband Christian Horner at the Bahrain Grand Prix today in a show of solidarity after leaked text messages rocked Formula One. Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner broke cover at the Grand Prix on Saturday morning with no sign of his wife Geri Halliwell after his wife found out the texts were leaked as she was flying in a private jet. Halliwell, 51, and her husband, 50, had breathed a collective sigh of relief on Wednesday when Red Bull cleared Horner of inappropriate behaviour allegations which were made by a female employee....
  • NEW MEXICO AG SUES META PLATFORMS AND MARK ZUCKERBERG FOLLOWING UNDERCOVER OPERATION INVOLVING MINORS

    12/08/2023 5:18:41 AM PST · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    libertyonenews.com ^ | December 8, 2023 | Staff
    On Thursday, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez launched a major legal offensive in an attempt to address the online risks faced by minors. The lawsuit targeted Meta Platforms, Inc., its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and associated entities such as Instagram, LLC and Facebook Holdings, LLC. This bold action seeks to prevent the exploitation of children on social media platforms. “Our investigation into Meta’s social media platforms demonstrates that they are not safe spaces for children but rather prime locations for predators to trade child pornography and solicit minors for sex,” Attorney General Torrez said in a statement. “As a career...
  • Hunter Biden's attorney blames his ADDICTION for WhatsApp message invoking dad Joe in business deal - and insists his actions have 'no connection to anyone in his family'

    06/24/2023 3:55:00 AM PDT · by Libloather · 33 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6/23/23 | Geoff Earle
    Hunter Biden's lawyer has blasted the account of an IRS whistleblower who testified about a WhatsApp message where he appeared to threaten a Chinese businessman and claiming to be seated with his powerful father. Lawyer Chris Clark, who negotiated a plea agreement on Hunter's behalf with the Justice Department, called the whistleblower 'biased' and claimed the account covered 'a time of turmoil and addiction' for the president's son. He also disputed the veracity of Hunter's claim about now-President Biden in the WhatsApp message, saying his words have 'no connection to anyone in his family.' 'An extensive, five-year-long investigation conducted by...
  • Private Spies Hired by the FBI and Corporate Firms Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

    05/30/2023 4:49:44 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 22 replies
    www.LeeFang.com ^ | 05 10 2023 | Lee Fang
    That anonymous internet persona with an anime cartoon avatar in your Discord chat might actually be a contractor sent to spy on you. Enter the world of “threat intelligence.” It’s the term of art for a growing set of surveillance and security firms that create fake online personas to infiltrate and scrape data from private corners of the internet. The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, invite-only Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums, and dark web message boards to help those powerful customers keep tabs on a variety of potential threats, from political hacktivists...
  • Elon Musk Warns Users That Zuckerberg’s “WhatsApp” Is Secretly Accessing Device Microphones

    05/10/2023 6:02:38 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 59 replies
    Daily Fetched ^ | May 10, 2023 | By: Jason Walsh
    Twitter CEO Elon Musk warned users of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp that it is secretly accessing their device microphones without their knowledge and violating their privacy. Twitter’s director of engineering, Foad Dabri, posted a photo documenting his WhatsApp timeline which showed Zuckerberg’s messaging app was accessing his phone’s mic while he was asleep. Elon Musk responded to the tweet, simply stating, “WhatsApp cannot be trusted.” The WhatsApp Company later responded to the Twitter post claiming it had reached out to the Twitter engineer about the issue. As expected, the company would not accept any blame and attempted to write the issue...
  • Biden White House urged Meta to crack down on 'vaccine-skeptical' content on WhatsApp private chat platform

    03/26/2023 2:24:11 AM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/24/23 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    Newly-released communications between the Biden administration and Meta show an effort to crack down on so-called "vaccine-skeptical" content shared on the private communications platform WhatsApp. Independent journalist David Zweig reported on Friday that the White House went beyond Twitter to curb COVID-related posts. Emails obtained through discovery from the ongoing Missouri v Biden legal battle show email exchanges from the White House to the tech giant began just days after President Biden took office. Zweig stressed that unlike Facebook and Instagram, both of which are owned by Meta, WhatsApp is an encrypted direct messaging platform, Citing Meta, "90% of WhatsApp...
  • Choosing WhatsApp, Signal, or other for Neighborhood Watch

    01/18/2023 12:04:19 PM PST · by ansel12 · 28 replies
    I formed a Neighborhood Watch group and now need a messaging app. The police rep. mentioned WhatsApp but supposedly some people are moving away from it to Signal. Not knowing anything about social media I need some advice, our group already has Facebook which I don't have, don't do, and can't even seem to get, and someone else handles that Facebook account and it isn't used much by them I'm told. My first instinct is to use Signal, but I'm really in the dark about these things and once I sign-up someone else will be doing the mass communications on...
  • Not So Private Messaging: Facebook Announces ‘Fact Checking’ in WhatsApp For French Election

    02/19/2022 10:58:19 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Feb 2022 | PETER CADDLE
    Facebook parent company Meta has announced it will be implementing a ‘fact checking’ service in its messaging platform WhatsApp, in order to counter so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election. The move is part of the company’s efforts to tackle so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election, with the Silicon Valley giant also announcing new anti-disinfo measures for its Instagram and Facebook platforms. Facebook has also promised that it will make “significant efforts to combat the dissemination of false information” on its platforms, saying that it will “remove content” that violates the company’s “Community Standards”, Also...
  • Why the Winners and Losers of Meta’s Bombshell Earnings Will Become Clearer Today.

    02/03/2022 6:09:21 AM PST · by lasereye · 30 replies
    Barrons ^ | Feb. 3, 2022 | By Jack Denton
    Meta Platforms which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is seeing its stock go into freefall. The shares were more than 22% in lower in premarket trading Thursday. If the shares finish more than 18.96% lower in regular trading in the day ahead, it will be the worst one-day plunge for the stock in the company’s history. While sales came in ahead of estimates, earnings were weaker than expected and the group’s guidance was truly dismal: Revenue is expected to come in between $27 billion and $29 billion in the current quarter. Representing comparatively anemic annual growth of 3% to 11%,...
  • The REAL reason Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram broke revealed

    10/06/2021 10:17:16 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    https://www.thesun.co.uk ^ | 10:16, 5 Oct 2021 Updated: 10:26, 5 Oct 2021 | Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor
    FACEBOOK, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for seven hours in a major global outage yesterday – but why? Here's a quick guide on what actually happened to take three of the world's biggest websites and apps offline. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/16328655/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-crashed/ In 2021, it's easy to wonder how huge chunks of the internet can go offline. But it's surprisingly easy for outages to happen – due to how the internet works. World wide web Every website – including Facebook – exists on a computer server somewhere. So when you want to log on to Facebook.com, you have to connect to one of Facebook's...
  • Facebook Crashes Globally After Mainstream Media Heralds Alleged ‘Whistleblower’

    10/04/2021 3:03:30 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 23 replies
    GP ^ | 10/04/21 | Alicia Powe
    Without warning, Facebook crashed on Monday morning.It’s unclear what caused today’s global outage which saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all crash.The shutdown comes after a former Facebook product manager turned “whistleblower” leaked tens of thousands of internal documents published in a blockbuster series of reports published by The Wall Street Journal.Facebook executives admit in the internal memos that Zuckerberg “hobbled” America to get vaccinated, facilitates human trafficking and that the company’s subsidiary, Instagram, is harmful to teenagers among the trove of damning information leaked.However, the whistleblower, 37-year old data scientist Frances Haugen who led Facebook’s Civic Integrity and Misinformation Group...
  • Facebook.com Is for Sale as Worldwide Outage, Whistleblower, and Massive User Data Breach Collide in Perfect Storm

    10/04/2021 12:18:18 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 239 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | 10/4/2021 | J.D. Rucker
    Facebook is down, and not in a minor way. The Big Tech mammoth is down worldwide in a way in which they will not be able to easily recover as the DNS A and AAA records have been deleted. Technically speaking, facebook.com is now for sale. They’re not alone. Instagram, WhatsApp, and others have also been affected in the same way. It’s clearly a coordinated attack on a massive scale, though it’s unclear how it was pulled off. We’re not talking about a simple DDoS attack. This is catastrophic and would have required high-level access to certain protocols that one...
  • Every Facebook-owned app appears to be down in a widespread outage

    10/04/2021 11:20:29 AM PDT · by Bubba_Leroy · 83 replies
    MSN News ^ | October 4, 2021 | Sarah Jackson
    Users reported having issues accessing Facebook apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook itself on the website Downdetector, which tracks outages and issues across various websites and services. The issues began around 11:45 a.m. ET on Monday, according to user reports on Downdetector. They appeared to affect users in many countries around the world. In a tweet addressing the outage, Facebook said, "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience." Instagram also addressed the outage on Twitter,...
  • Why did Facebook HELP the Taliban?

    08/16/2021 5:48:53 AM PDT · by 2harddrive · 22 replies
    Preston Byrne ^ | 08/15/2021 | Preston Byrne
    Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp? Posted on August 15, 2021 by prestonbyrne In the middle of a conflict, good analysis is hard to come by. Because adversaries do not telegraph their plans to one another, plans depend greatly on the fact patterns surrounding their execution, and no human mind can possibly observe, much less comprehend, the movements of all players on the battlefield, the prosecution of wars, no matter how meticulously planned and no matter how eminently credentialed the planners, frequently defies the will of the planners. This phenomenon is known as the “Fog of War,” a...
  • Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

    08/15/2021 5:13:15 PM PDT · by White Lives Matter · 31 replies
    Preston Byrne ^ | August 15, 2021 | Preston Byrne
    How wrong this assessment was is now clear for everyone to see. A week ago, the U.S. said Afghanistan could withstand the Taliban for 90 days. Today, the (70,000-strong) Taliban is in control of the capital, the much-vaunted Afghan army has disintegrated, and tens of thousands of Afghans – whose collective force could stop the Taliban, if only it had the organization to do so – are fleeing to any place and by any means they can. Conventionally, the United States did everything right; it installed a government, equipped and trained an army with four times the Taliban’s manpower, an...
  • Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary is kicked off Instagram days after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook

    08/03/2021 2:54:04 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 15 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 08:15 EDT, 3 August 2021 | William Cole
    Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has had his Instagram account suspended — just days after he was also booted off Twitter and Facebook. The 54-year-old joined the social networking site as anjemchoudary1967 and began posting on Monday. But within hours, Instagram’s parent company Facebook moved to take the account down for violating its policies. It comes days after Choudary’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter were “permanently suspended for violating the rules” of its violent organizations policy. The firebrand preacher began setting up online profiles two weeks ago after legal conditions that prevented him from speaking publicly expired on July 18. He...
  • SEARCHWhatsApp blocks 2 million Indian users over ‘spam message abuses’

    07/16/2021 11:20:03 AM PDT · by RBW in PA · 3 replies
    Dawn ^ | July 16, 2021 | AFP
    WhatsApp has blocked more than two million users in India in just a month for violating its rules, the United States-based company has disclosed in its first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules. Most of the users were blocked for spam message abuses. The Facebook-owned firm has put a limit on mass forward messaging in a bid to counter misinformation.India implemented new rules in May to regulate social media companies, forcing them to disclose each month their efforts to police their platforms. “We maintain advanced capabilities to identify these accounts sending a high or abnormal rate of...
  • Facebook becomes a $1 TRILLION company for the first time after a DC judge dismisses government antitrust lawsuits that claimed firm holds a 'monopoly' over social networking

    06/28/2021 5:52:12 PM PDT · by algore · 35 replies
    The government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook in December 2020 They accused Facebook of abusing its market share to crush competitors The suit potentially sought the forced sale of Instagram and WhatsApp A US district judge on Monday ruled that the lawsuits were 'legally insufficient' He said they did not provide enough evidence that Facebook was a monopoly These allegations - which do not even provide an estimated actual figure or range for Facebook's market share at any point over the past ten years - ultimately fall short of plausibly establishing that Facebook holds market power,' he said....
  • Millions of WhatsApp users ABANDON the app and switch to rivals Telegram or Signal ahead of privacy policy update that will force them to share their personal data with Facebook

    01/12/2021 12:25:43 PM PST · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 11:53 EST, 11 January 2021 | UPDATED: 12:20 EST, 12 Janu
    WhatsApp is making a huge change to its privacy policy from February 8 The change affects the way WhatsApp allows businesses to communicate Users cannot opt out and will lose access to their accounts if they don't agree There is a separate privacy policy for WhatsApp users in Europe and the UK Following the news, many users have jumped shipped to rival messaging apps, including Telegram and Signal ================================================================= Millions of WhatsApp users have taken the drastic step of abandoning the app ahead of a privacy policy update that will force them to share their data with Facebook. The update,...
  • The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp

    12/09/2020 4:07:12 PM PST · by rarestia · 9 replies
    The Verge ^ | Dec 9, 2020, 2:41pm EST | Nick Statt and Russell Brandom
    On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a massive antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social media giant has harmed competition by buying up smaller companies like Instagram and WhatsApp to squash the threat they posed to its business. Forty-seven other state and regional attorneys general are joining the suit. The lawsuit centers on Facebook’s acquisitions, particularly its $1 billion purchase of Instagram in 2011. In addition to its acquisition strategy, the attorneys general allege that Facebook used the power and reach of its platform to stifle user growth for competing services. “For nearly a decade, Facebook has...