No Trespassing: Facebook Sues for Data Scraping

On June 18, Facebook filed a civil lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against online mobile platform Massroot8 for “scraping” data about Facebook users in violation of both Facebook’s Terms of Service (ToS) and therefore as criminal trespass … Continue reading No Trespassing: Facebook Sues for Data Scraping

Facebook Says 5% of Monthly Active Accounts Are Fake, Deletes 3B in 6 Months

Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March 2019, bringing the total of accounts disabled to more than 3 billion over a six-month period, which includes Q4 2018 data, according to the company’s Community Standards Enforce… Continue reading Facebook Says 5% of Monthly Active Accounts Are Fake, Deletes 3B in 6 Months

These Are the Pages Facebook Says Are Part of a ‘Coordinated’ Effort to Influence the Midterm Elections

Facebook has removed 32 accounts and pages for “inauthentic behavior” tied to the “Unite the Right 2″ rally next month in Washington, DC. Continue reading These Are the Pages Facebook Says Are Part of a ‘Coordinated’ Effort to Influence the Midterm Elections