Thread: Facebook

Originally Posted by wasabi

"John Bugden" the famous Facebook Farang is now in BKK and he's just posted his latest video, something never seen before, a taxi driver who wouldn't switch on the meter, and the driver wanted 300 Bt from savvy John.

link.

I don't know the process of posting a FB link on TD

A message to Mark Zuckerberg from Wanpen in Sweden.

What bar kicked her out for not earning enough bar fines?

and farcebook is where most tinfoil hatters get their news - I wonder what percentage of them also use iPhones ?

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and rewards teenagers and adults to download the Research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be a violation of Apple policy so the social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity, a TechCrunch investigation confirms.

Facebook admitted to TechCrunch it was running the Research program to gather data on usage habits, and it has no plans to stop.

Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page. The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTest to cloak Facebook’s involvement, and is referred to in some documentation as “Project Atlas” — a fitting name for Facebook’s effort to map new trends and rivals around the globe.

We asked Guardian Mobile Firewall’s security expert Will Strafach to dig into the Facebook Research app, and he told us that “If Facebook makes full use of the level of access they are given by asking users to install the Certificate, they will have the ability to continuously collect the following types of data: private messages in social media apps, chats from in instant messaging apps – including photos/videos sent to others, emails, web searches, web browsing activity, and even ongoing location information by tapping into the feeds of any location tracking apps you may have installed.” It’s unclear exactly what data Facebook is concerned with, but it gets nearly limitless access to a user’s device once they install the app.

The strategy shows how far Facebook is willing to go and how much it’s willing to pay to protect its dominance — even at the risk of breaking the rules of Apple’s iOS platform on which it depends. Apple could seek to block Facebook from continuing to distribute its Research app, or even revoke it permission to offer employee-only apps, and the situation could further chill relations between the tech giants. Apple’s Tim Cook has repeatedly criticized Facebook’s data collection practices. Facebook disobeying iOS policies to slurp up more information could become a new talking point. TechCrunch has spoken to Apple and it’s aware of the issue, but the company did not provide a statement before press time.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/fa...project-atlas/

no shortage of idiots in the world,

some will mine bitcoins, others buy them, and people sell their intimate privacy to big disgusting corps for 20 USD a month

it's a new kind of prostitution, a digital privacy prostitution

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

no shortage of idiots in the world,

yes - they are legion - you can identify them when they attempt to fix wifi issues with reg edit instead of using the physical switch

Not that the brat will be losing sleep over it, but anyone know anything about this?

"I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

"NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members should post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates.

"This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have lots of friends and only 25 are allowed to see my post. I ignored this post earlier, but It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed, and seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years.

"Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed.
Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore, hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste. This will bypass the system."

^ Sounds like a troll getting thousands/millions of users to copy and paste his troll joke.


Not me, btw, I'd have included a few penises in it.

Utter bollocks of course.

https://www.businessinsider.com/face...18-8?r=US&IR=T

Originally Posted by jabir

Not that the brat will be losing sleep over it, but anyone know anything about this?

"I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

"NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members should post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates.

"This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have lots of friends and only 25 are allowed to see my post. I ignored this post earlier, but It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed, and seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years.

"Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed.
Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore, hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste. This will bypass the system."

Fair enough and tx, was someone I know that doesn't fire blanks, usually.

they could just block the sh1t site like they do for porn etc

Facebook needs regulation to combat fake news, say MPs


Online disinformation is only going to get more sophisticated, the chair of the committee investigating disinformation and fake news, Damian Collins, has warned.

In a report released on Monday, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee said Facebook had in effect put democracy at risk by allowing voters to be targeted with disinformation and personalised “dark adverts” from anonymous actors. It called for the company to be regulated.

“Where we can see lies being spread, particularly in election periods, we should have the ability to say to the tech companies: we want you to act against that content,” Collins told the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “Its not an opinion, it’s a clear lie. It’s being spread maliciously and you should stop it.”

After an 18-month investigation, the DCMS found that British election laws were not fit for purpose and were vulnerable to interference by hostile foreign actors.

Although he stopped short of saying that companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were breaking the law, Collins said the legislation was not robust enough and needed to be made clearer.

Citing evidence of agencies working from Russia, as well as an unidentifiable organisation called the Mainstream Network that urged voters to lobby their MP to support a no-deal Brexit, Collins criticised the fact that the law did not require such actors to identify themselves.

“No one knows who this organisation is, and I think in a democracy, citizens need to be informed … and the law doesn’t require that.”


He predicted false information would become more convincing, saying that “deepfake films” featuring politicians giving inflammatory speeches they never gave could circulate social media in the near future.

The interviewer, John Humphrys, interjected: “So it looks like you’re saying, ‘sack Theresa May’, but in fact it’s somebody else with your face superimposed?”

Collins said: “In a situation like that we are going to want to be able to go to companies like Facebook and say this is clearly fake, its being released maliciously to try to influence people’s opinion to spread anger and hate and it should be taken down because its not true. That’s the power we believe we need.”

He added: “We should have a proper code of ethics, set in statute with an independent regulator to oversee whether the tech companies are complying or not.”

The approach taken by other European countries could serve as an example for the UK, he suggested. In France, judges can order fake news to be taken down, while in Germany the tech companies take responsibility for taking down hate speech from their platforms. However, social media companies “could invest more to deal with this and proactively identify this content for themselves”, he said.

The government has so far been reluctant to endorse the committee’s findings, with Collins previously complaining that ministers had been hesitant to support many of the conclusions contained in the preliminary report.

Elsewhere on social media, young people were being exposed to harmful content but were trapped within feedback loops that meant if they engaged with this material, they were served with more of it. “What you are seeing is not an organic feed,” Collins said. “We should also question the ethics of a company that would create a tool like that.”

Full Fact, a UK fact-checking charity, said it welcomed the DCMS’s recommendations and that the government should commit to making these changes before the next election.

Facefuk is the equal of ThaiVisa.

A place for the " look at me " wankers to show case their skills.

Pathetic shit stains one and all.

Ya wanna make contact with sum coont, ring the fukers up eh.

bump

Facebook decommissions 185 accounts run by Thai military

It’s not that they lied (which looks likely), it's that they all lied together, says spokesperson

Facebook has for the first time deleted accounts associated with the Thai government due to “coordinated inauthentic behavior”.

The crackdown has removed 77 individual Facebook accounts, 72 Facebook pages, 18 Facebook groups and 18 Instagram accounts.

The accounts had a collective 703,000 followers, the Facebook groups had a collective 100,000 members and the Instagram accounts had amassed 2,500 followers. They'd collectively spent $350 on ads.

Some accounts were explicitly associated with the military and others were fake accounts purporting to be residents from southern Thailand. Facebook believes the accounts were driven by the Thai military’s Internal Security Operations Command

Southern Thailand's population is mainly Muslim and Malay, in contrast to predominantly-Buddhist population across the rest of Thailand. Residents in the region have fought 15 years of insurgency, resulting in around 7,000 deaths.

“This network posted primarily in Thai about news and current events including content in support of the Thai military and the monarchy, calls for non-violence, regional COVID-19 updates, alleged violence by the insurgent groups in southern Thailand, and criticism of separatist and independence movements,” Facebook wrote in a report [PDF] detailing suspicious behaviour observed in February of this year.

The removal of the accounts was due to dodgy behaviour, not just content, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of Cybersecurity Policy, explained to newswire Reuters.

Thailand and Facebook have form. In August 2020 The Social Network™ blocked in-country access to a large group that criticized the Thai king.

However, Facebook has of late also appeared more willing to stand up to governments, as demonstrated by the removal of Donald J Trump's account in the USA, the Australian news SNAFU, and the blocking of military accounts in Myanmar.

Facebook decommissions 185 accounts run by Thai military • The Register