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    Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money

    Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and then often refused to give the money back, according to court documents unsealed tonight in response to a Reveal legal action.

    The records are part of a class action lawsuit focused on how Facebook targeted children in an effort to expand revenue for online games, such as Angry Birds, PetVille and Ninja Saga.

    The more than 135 pages of unsealed documents, which include internal Facebook memos, secret strategies and employee emails, paint a troubling picture of how the social media giant conducted business.
    https://www.revealnews.org/article/f...-out-of-money/

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    Company memo: we shall henceforth call this “maximizing revenue”.

    Corrupt.

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    Another very long report on FB...Fraud

    What seems too good to be true often is. The zeitgeist has changed markedly since 2007, when the company was the obsession of virtually every Silicon Valley investor, having built its Platform to make the world "more open and connected." Yet as bad as things have been of late for Facebook, with endless privacy breaches and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election hanging over Menlo Park like a spectre, we believe that the situation is far worse than investors realize. Facebook has been lying to the public about the scale of its problem with fake accounts, which likely exceed 50% of its network. Its official metrics—many of which it has stopped reporting quarterly—are self-contradictory and even farcical. The company has lost control of its own product.

    Fake accounts affect Facebook at its core in numerous ways:

    Its customers purchase advertising on Facebook based on the fact that it can supposedly target advertisements at more than 2 billion real human beings. To the extent that users aren’t real, companies are throwing their money down the drain.

    Fake accounts click on advertising at random, or "like" pages, to throw off anti-fraud algorithms. Fake accounts look real if they do not follow a clear pattern. This kind of activity defrauds advertisers, but rewards Facebook with revenue.

    Fake accounts often defraud other users on Facebook, through scams, fake news, extortion, and other forms of deception. Often, they can involve governments.
    https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/facebook.html

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    Another very long report on FB...Fraud



    https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/facebook.html
    No kidding. Wow. Have you ever googled someone’s name and FB comes in with a “we found the name on Facebook” entry? Yeah, you click on it and it’s a fake/dead account.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    No kidding. Wow. Have you ever googled someone’s name and FB comes in with a “we found the name on Facebook” entry? Yeah, you click on it and it’s a fake/dead account.
    I've had a dead account for years but every day I get the emails.. "John, you have 97 new notifications" from FB ... lol.. creepy.

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