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Feinberg said that the links were present on popular NFL Facebook fan pages and, following contact with Facebook, was dissatisfied with the corporation's "after-the-fact approach". Feinberg called for oversight, stating, "If you really want to hack someone, the easiest place to start is a fake Facebook profile—it's so simple, it's stupid." [318]
The site also makes it easier for Facebook to differentiate between accounts that have been caught up in a botnet and those that legitimately access Facebook through Tor. [6] As of its 2014 release, the site was still in early stages, with much work remaining to polish the code for Tor access.
For example, a Facebook user can link their email account to their Facebook to find friends on the site, allowing the company to collect the email addresses of users and non-users alike. [214] Over time, countless data points about an individual are collected; any single data point perhaps cannot identify an individual, but together allows the ...
Even though YouTube is blocked under the Great Firewall, many Chinese media outlets, including China Central Television (CCTV), Xinhua News Agency and China Global Television Network (CGTN), have official YouTube accounts.
Internet censorship in China is circumvented by determined parties by using proxy servers outside the firewall. [208] Users may circumvent all of the censorship and monitoring of the Great Firewall if they have a working VPN or SSH connection method to a computer outside mainland China. However, disruptions of VPN services have been reported ...
Wider protests were considered and in some cases committed to by major internet sites, with high-profile bodies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, Reddit, Mozilla, LinkedIn, IAC, eBay, PayPal, WordPress and Wikimedia being widely named as "considering" or committed to an "unprecedented" internet blackout on January 18, 2012.
Senior Facebook officials apologized to the Palestinian Prime Minister for censoring pro-Palestinian voices. [43] Al Jazeera Arabic presenter Tamer Almisshal has had his Facebook profile deleted by Meta 24 hours after the programme "Tip of the Iceberg" aired an investigation into Meta's censorship of Palestinian content titled The Locked Space ...
A Facebook spokesperson said the pages were disabled as part of a routine sweep because they were created with fake personal profiles, a violation of the company's term of service. In this case a number of the Facebook personal profile pages represented causes, rather than real people.