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Facebook Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male. [121] All four were charged and convicted of hate crimes. [122] Facebook Live was also used by Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.
In March 2024, a court in California released documents detailing Facebook's 2016 "Project Ghostbusters". The project was aimed at helping Facebook compete with Snapchat and involved Facebook trying to develop decryption tools to collect, decrypt, and analyze traffic that users generated when visiting Snapchat and, eventually, YouTube and Amazon.
The change was described by Ryan Tate as Facebook's Great Betrayal, [366] forcing user profile photos and friends lists to be visible in users' public listing, even for users who had explicitly chosen to hide this information previously, [365] and making photos and personal information public unless users were proactive about limiting access. [367]