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Following a Nov. 3 ransomware attack against Campari, Ragnar Locker group took out public Facebook ads threatening to release stolen data. Continue reading Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Takes Out Facebook Ads in Key New Tactic
While privacy experts praised Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 updates, Facebook said the new features could cut its advertising business in half. Continue reading Facebook Hits Back At Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Update
Following its efforts to take legal action against those misusing its social media platform, Facebook has now filed a new lawsuit against a Hong Kong-based advertising company and two Chinese individuals for allegedly abusing its ad platform to distrib… Continue reading Facebook Sued Hong Kong Firm for Hacking Users and Ad Fraud Scheme
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users’ smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook ads.
According to Facebook, Hong Kong-based ‘LionMobi’ and Singapore-based ‘JediMob… Continue reading Facebook Sues Two Android App Developers for Click Injection Fraud
Ads for cashier positions in supermarkets reached an 85% female audience, and ads for positions in taxi companies reached a 75% Black audience. Continue reading Researchers Find Facebook’s Ad Targeting Algorithm Is Inherently Biased
The music-recognition app that Apple bought for $400 million is removing Facebook Ads, DoubleClick, Facebook Analytics and more. Continue reading Apple’s Shazam App Boots Facebook Ads and Other Third-Party SDKs
Concealed Online, the third biggest “political advertiser” on Facebook, touts the Virginia loophole, granting concealed weapons permits. Continue reading Facebook defends gun-law loophole firm as “political advertisers”
…or that they can edit the (often inaccurate) pigeon-holes Facebook likes to put us in, a study found. Continue reading Did you know you can see the ad boxes Facebook sorts us into?
Just a couple of weeks before the US midterm elections, journalists have revealed that Facebook is continuing to approve fake advertisements from fake sources. Continue reading Facebook is still approving fake political ads
American social media companies simply weren’t prepared for what hit them in 2016: a barrage of accounts spewing disinformation in an unrelenting influence operation against the U.S. presidential election. It was a subversion of Silicon Valley’s altruistic intent, a turning of America’s digital openness against itself. It was, as Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking explain in their eponymously titled book, “like-war.” “If cyberwar is the hacking of the networks, ‘like-war’ is the hacking of the people on the networks by driving ideas viral through likes and lies,” Singer said in an interview. While the Russian campaign to interfere in U.S. democracy involved plenty of hacking, “it was the ‘like-war’ side, the influence operation side, that gave it its impact,” he added. Tech companies may have been ready to defend their networks from hacking, but they were blindsided by the disinformation offensive, according to Singer, a senior fellow at New America, a […]
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