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Facebook Sues China-Based Companies For Selling Fake Accounts (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Facebook and its Instagram unit sued four companies and three people based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers that the social network giant says can be used for nefarious purposes. The Chinese companies advertised and created the fake accounts over the last two years and marketed them for sale on six websites, selling them in bulk quantities, according to a complaint filed Friday in San Francisco federal court. "Fake and inauthentic accounts can be used for spam and phishing campaigns, misinformation campaigns, marketing scams, advertising fraud, and other fraud schemes which are profitable at scale," Facebook and Instagram alleged. They said fake accounts were also created on Amazon, Apple, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter. The companies named as defendants -- 9 Xiu Shenzhen, 9 Xiu Feishu, 9 Xiufei and Home Network -- are based in Longyan and Shenzhen. They are affiliated manufacturers of electronics and hardware, as well as providers of software and online advertising services, according to the complaint.
They make it so easy to create fake accounts though. If they don't want fake accounts they need to verify everyone. This should be simple in China.
but this is a social warrior meme so I gotta run, gotta hide, gotta leave, you by my side. No, I'm not a listener.
1. It’s free and always will be.
2. ???
3. Profit
Who cares? The companies and individuals in China don't care because US law doesn't apply there. Rest of world doesn't care because federal court also doesn't mean anything outside US.
Why even bother filing suit? All it does is provide more proof that Facebook is a steaming pile of dingos kidneys that scams can be set up so readily.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Since fbis blocked and can be accessed only via vpn (or maybe via somes rules in chinese fw) why doesnt fb just use their "AI" to correlate ipsrc, x-referrer, languge setting etc. fb collects so much data it seems difficult that this is not in their reach
i.e. their government. site is supposed to be inaccessible in china. if they can't keep their own fucking firewall secure, why the fuck should the rest of the world trust their routers and phones and '5g' hardware and such?
since these scammers 'hurt' an american company.. if the government there ain't blocking the site, they're in on it.
I am sure China is really scared, this is more a PR stunt then anything. Like legally you will get anywhere with China. Good luck!
Hey, you gotta give us a cut of any underhanded sleazy crap you do!
Get rid of the like button and remove the follower count and this issue goes away.
... Great Firewall of China and get China to pay for it.
I have to think of everything.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
China could discard facebooks lawsuits and ramp up increased hacking and cyber war against the company.
What is facebook to China ?
Direct Competition in collusion with USA spy agencies.
China could put facebook out of business simply by copying & improving on the products.
A new platform easily reaches billions more humans and provide all the same data services as facebook, for 1/10th the cost. Facebook has no say over the nation-state of China.
Knowing this, it is only a short time before facebook goes to worthless and goes out of business.
Those disgusting little blue (f)s on everthing are just a form of spyware trackers, demonstrated to be tracking facebook victims even after they've logged out of facebook.
Ghostery reports all the trackers loaded onto pages now a days and some pages are bogged down with 30 or more trackers, analytics, cookies, and more...
and those are the legit sites not hosting malware, browser coin miners, exploits and the rest...
problem solved :)
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