Update (Insider Sept 17): The BBC in 2019 reported that human traffickers were using Facebook’s services to sell domestic workers. Apple threatened to remove Facebook from its App Store after a report about an online slave market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook knew about the practice even before Apple made its threat. There … Continue reading Facebook Lied About Encryption and Mines Outrage for Profit →

On July 29th the Stanford Internet Observatory, arguably a Potemkin village by design, released the following PR statement: Announcing the Journal of Online Trust and Safety… The journal was conceived from a recognition that much of the cutting-edge research on online harm lacks an appropriate journal for publication. An “appropriate journal”? What was wrong with … Continue reading Is Facebook Using Stanford to Silence Its Critics? →

Yet ANOTHER bone-head security screw-up at Facebook. And in that article you will find this sentence: ‘The authors never intended to publish this as a final document to the whole company, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. NEVER INTENDED. Intended to publish? Does it matter what they intended to publish? After this internal report … Continue reading How Facebook Avoids Consequences for Crimes →

A harsh new report about notifications to Facebook in 2017, based on an allegedly leaked internal email, tells us what we’ve all known since at least 2015. Facebook knew there was a problem, and failed to do anything until half a billion users’ details were released… Security at Facebook has been operating as a farce. … Continue reading Facebook Security Knew in 2017 There Was a Problem and Failed to Act →