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  • Chicken soup for the soul: Facebook gives a warning

    Chicken soup for the soul: Facebook gives a warning

    For the past few days, hundreds of people have taken to Twitter–ERRR—X (still need to get used to typing that out) about a strange anomaly on Facebook..

    It appears that when looking up chicken soup on Facebook, they think you are trying to find child pornography..

    Some have complained that they have been locked out of their accounts simply by searching for it.

    When Twitter user @KingBobIIV tweeted out the Facebook message that appeared after searching for “chicken soup,” one person responded with a fairly upsetting reason. According to @ItsPropaPanda, some “users were sharing and asking for links to child abuse images and videos.” They added, “Sometimes they used generic terms with the initials ‘C.P.’ a common abbreviation for ‘child pornography,’ and code like ‘caldo de pollo,’ which means ‘chicken soup’ in Spanish.”

    Initially people began talking about this on Reddit threads about 8 days ago.

    People have also researched on Urban Dictionary .

    From an NBC news article as the pandemic began in early 2020,

    Concerned parents notified NBC News of accounts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and in the comments of YouTube videos where users were sharing and asking for links to child abuse images and videos. Many of the links were to groups on private messaging apps, including Telegram and WhatsApp, as well as to file-sharing sites such as Mega. Sometimes they used generic terms with the initials “C.P.,” a common abbreviation for “child pornography,” and code like “caldo de pollo,” which means “chicken soup” in Spanish. Others referred to the names of children who appear in sets of child abuse imagery already known to law enforcement. NBC News did not click on the links to verify that they contained what they advertised.

  • Facebook bans Elizabeth Warren Facebook ads!!

    Facebook bans Elizabeth Warren Facebook ads!!

    Talk about sensitive!
    Facebook just banned some ads that presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren placed on its service.. apparently the insult hit too close to home for Mark Zuckerberg’s comfort…

    MORE..

    Facebook has removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants.

    The ads, which had identical images and text, touted Warren’s recently announced plan to unwind “anti-competitive” tech mergers, including Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram.

    POLITICO REPORTING:

    “Three companies have vast power over our economy and our democracy. Facebook, Amazon, and Google,” read the ads, which Warren’s campaign had placed Friday. “We all use them. But in their rise to power, they’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field in their favor.”
    A message on the three ads reads: “This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook’s advertising policies.”
    A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the ads had been taken down and said the company is reviewing the matter. The person said, according to an initial review, that the removal could be linked to the company’s policies about using Facebook’s brand in posts.

    Image result for elizabeth warren beer 

  • The social network social experiment: Facebook paid teenagers to spy on rivals

    The social network social experiment: Facebook paid teenagers to spy on rivals

    The Facebook Research program, which began in 2016, has drawn scorn of critics and parents in the wake of Apple’s decision to ban the data-monitoring app from all iOS phones. 

    Apple said Facebook’s research app was a “clear breach” of their agreement with the Cupertino, Calif. company. 

    More.. 

    The pushback from Apple, which revoked Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate, has escalated the war between the tech companies and wreaked havoc at Facebook because all of its internal, employee-only apps cannot be accessed.

    “I find this behavior shameful. Taking advantage of people who do not understand the value of the data they generate. Targeting kids of all people! As a parent I am appalled. I am so happy I stopped using Facebook years ago,” Claudiu Musat, a research director for data, analytics and AI at Swisscom, said on Twitter.

  • Hacked Facebook private messages for saleThe perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had…

    Hacked Facebook private messages for saleThe perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had…

    The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure.

    Facebook said its security had not been compromised.

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  • Your “private” Facebook messages are now in the hands of hackers

    Your “private” Facebook messages are now in the hands of hackers

    OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS, NUMEROUS FACEBOOK USERS HAVE POSTED MESSAGES STATING THAT THEIR ACCOUNTS SEEMINGLY ARE HACKED.. THAT ODD MESSAGES ARE BEING SENT, AND THAT WEIRD FRIEND REQUESTS ARE INCOMING.

    No surprise on the INTERNETS.. the hacking has been known about for days.  It has only been over the past 24 hours of time that the public has been made aware more of the seriousness of what may be in store for users….

    From CNN:

    On Sunday, September 16, engineers at Facebook detected some unusual activity on the social media platform’s networks. It was an attack, the biggest security breach in Facebook’s history. And it would take the company 11 more days to stop it.
    Now, almost a week since the public was first told of the attack, we still barely know anything about what happened.
    We don’t know who the hackers were, or what they were looking for. We don’t know whether they were targeting particular people in certain countries. We don’t know how long they had access to users’ information. And we don’t know what, if anything, they took.
    What we do know is that for at least 50 million users, the hackers could have seen everything. They could have logged in as if they were those users, and then accessed years of those users’ activity history on the platform — including their private messages

  • Everything is not enough.. Zuckerberg wanted your health information too

    Everything is not enough.. Zuckerberg wanted your health information too

    Facebook asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. 

    Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.
  • ZUCKERBERG ADMITS: 2 BILLION USERS HAD THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION SHARED

    ZUCKERBERG ADMITS: 2 BILLION USERS HAD THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION SHARED

    Sharing is caring in the slums of the socials.

    The INTERNET is enraged over what it knew in the back of its collective head since TIME mag named Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year..

    Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their public profiles scraped by outsiders without the users’ explicit permission!

    The acknowledgment was part of a broader disclosure by Facebook on Wednesday about the ways in which various levels of user data have been taken by everyone from malicious actors to ordinary app developers.

    “We’re an idealistic and optimistic company, and for the first decade, we were really focused on all the good that connecting people brings,” Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. “But it’s clear now that we didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking about how people could use these tools for harm as well.”

    IN THE MEAN TIME.. TENDER TIME WITH TINDER GOES HAYWIRE THANKS TO FACEBOOK PROBLEMS!

    When logging into Tinder using Facebook, you get a prompt that says the app “requires you provide additional Facebook permissions in order to create or use a Tinder account.” “This information is used to create fuller profiles, verify authenticity and provide support,” the pop-up reads. After pressing “Ask Me,” the app directs you to Facebook’s site to log in. Tinder then asks you to hand over “relationship interests, work history, and education history” from Facebook. Once you tap “Continue” in the Facebook app, you’re taken back to the Tinder app, where you will either see a loading “Logging In” icon or an error.

  • NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALREADY KNEW: FACEBOOK IS READING YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES

    NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALREADY KNEW: FACEBOOK IS READING YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES

    No surprise here.. anyone who acts like this is the first time they heard it needs their heads, or private messages, examined. Oh wait.. Facebook already examined them.

    Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.

    The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said.

    “In that case, our systems detect what’s going on,” Zuckerberg said. “We stop those messages from going through.”

    The current debate has shifted from the private message links and photos to the bigger question: What ISN’T Facebook reading? … 
    You can most likely deduct the answer using reasoning and common sense.
  • Chip blip: Apple iPhone freak out

    Chip blip: Apple iPhone freak out

    Apple has confirmed all its Mac systems and iOS devices are affected by two recently disclosed processor flaws called Spectre and Meltdown. 

    In an announcement on Thursday, Apple(AAPL) said it has released mitigations to defend against Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2. It will release mitigations in Safari to defend against the Spectre bug “in the coming days,” the release said.

  • A big massive oops. No, Mark Zuckerberg is not dead, and neither…

    A big massive oops. No, Mark Zuckerberg is not dead, and neither…

    A big massive oops. No, Mark Zuckerberg is not dead, and neither are you …

    Despite apparent widespread glitches that changed a number of Facebook users pages to ‘remembering’ pages–the kind that happens when someone assumes room temperature..

    I would hope that the company tries stopping the glitch from occurring again. Though many users of Facebook probably feel dead inside anyway, it becomes a false profile on social networks…. and when the founder is presumed fatally wounded, stocks could suffer.

    So here’s to you, Facebook user! Hope you had a good social.