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Facebook Deliberately Allowed 'Friendly Fraud' To Avoid Harming Revenue (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Newly unsealed court documents show that Facebook was aware that underage children routinely used their parents' payment information to spend large sums of money on in-game purchases, and the company chose not to fix the problem. For years, it allowed for what it called "friendly fraud" because it feared implementing protections would harm revenue, according to the documents. In 2016, Facebook settled a class-action lawsuit brought by parents of children who were tricked into unwittingly making purchases with real money while playing free video games hosted on the social media platform. Despite its recognition of the problem, internal discussions show that Facebook decided it would be best to fight refund requests and allow the problem to persist. Documents related to the case were placed under seal because Facebook successfully argued that releasing them to the public could harm its business. Reveal, a publication run by the Center for Investigative Reporting, argued that these documents were in the public interest; last week, a judge granted Reveal's request to release the documents. On Thursday night, 135 pages from the court proceedings were unsealed, though Facebook was allowed to maintain some redactions.
Probably even financed by the same investors. No regard for anyone.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
You're trying to pretend FB has a... Communist motive, instead of a blatantly shamelessly robber-baronly Capitalist motive and execution, including selling out our national elections and lying to Congress about it?
One thing about the Soviet/Chinese Communists... they don't go outside the family like that. They realize they shit where they eat.
There may be a problem with your business.
Yup.
When I was a kid, we took phone calls seriously, and would jump to pick up the phone to be polite to the caller. That (perhaps overzealous) enthusiasm was a valuable social contract.
4 years ago, I turned off the ringer on my landline. I was getting 20x as many spam calls as real human beings that I know. I was even on the Do Not Call Registry already.
Now I have a new phone service that came with the fiber, and it filters out most spam, but I still leave my ringer off. I get emailed a note if someone leaves a message -- nothing but spam so far.
Nobody but a business answers their phone when it is a stranger. We just ignore unless a text comes in first, explaining why we should pick up. But we will eventually read the transcript of the message maybe.
The phone companies have successfully destroyed a huge amount of goodwill around their product. Gone.