Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled

[NavyDiver]

If Facebook can cull three billion fake profiles how many fakes on AULRO Dave? Just kidding


Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled - BBC News

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(https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48380504)

[superquag]

A hundred years ago (ok, 10 or so...) my kids persuaded me to go on fb... so I did with a fake name etc etc.
After a while I was fed up with the inconsiquential rubbish everyone - even my extended family - would post on it, the last straw being a bowl of freshly picked oranges from their orchard, artfully arranged...

So I pulled the pin.... yeah right.... fb would regularly bombard me with beggings to 'come back'.... I finally relented, if only to keep my inbox from overflowing.

But after around 6 months, with virtually zero activity on my part, fb discerned that I was NOT who I said I was (true...) and I would be henceforth banned forever, the sin being violating the Most Sacred Terms of Agreement, for 101% honesty and disclosure - that email made my day !
Since then, they've left me alone, and the feeling is mutual.

The scary bit is... they worked it all out with virtually no help from me.

Perhaps my profile picture upset one of their airline members ....151283

[sashadidi]

I have friends who worry about privacy and big government watching but are happy on facebook posting everyday?.....
Watch this as an example of so called privacy on fb....

https://youtu.be/F7pYHN9iC9I

[cripesamighty]

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter et al, are all in the poo at the moment for censoring opinions that don't agree with theirs. The crux of it is because they are monopolies and do so much censoring they are not now considered a platform, but publishers instead, which are very one-sided publishers at that. By the time the dust settles, the lawsuits are going to run in the tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars in fines. It's gonna get messy and companies will probably start getting broken up.

[superquag]

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter et al, are all in the poo at the moment for censoring opinions that don't agree with theirs. The crux of it is because they are monopolies and do so much censoring they are not now considered a platform, but publishers instead, which are very one-sided publishers at that. By the time the dust settles, the lawsuits are going to run in the tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars in fines. It's gonna get messy and companies will probably start getting broken up.

Not as much as many would like to see... question (NOT 'criticize') the Democrats party (USA), or vaccination, or chemo-therapy or even - in the US - the Right to bear ANY arms, never mind hi-powered stuff....and see how quickly the social media sky falls on your head !
Amazon is already in the midst of banning books it does'nt agree with.