This story presents a conundrum. Jones has been banned from scores of properties the past few weeks—sometimes preemptively and other times reactively. They range from ad networks and payment processors to social platforms and streaming providers. .../ washingtonpost.com/technology/201… Jones/IW had at least 92 directly identifiable, active profiles, pages, and accounts in July. To date, 54 have been removed. Of the 38 remaining, *16* are Infowars Store related. They include platforms & companies that have removed all the other AJ/IW accounts .../

Looking at latest group of "inauthentic" accounts, the oddest case is the removal of Q4T. During last week's press call, MZ claimed FB had discovered, w/FireEye's help, that "Q4T was in fact linked to PressTV, an English-language news network affiliated w/Iranian state media" Fireeye's statement about IDing of Q4T

Missed some.

https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1032689438399373312

Here's a machine-generated RPFront video story from RoboNews:

Facebook stated that the recent batch of removed accounts and pages were "distinct campaigns" and it had not found "any link or coordination between them." Another mention about lack of relationship near the end of yesterday's press release newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/m…

44,394 to be exact

https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1027321805411942405

"Pages created about 30 events... about half had fewer than 100 accounts interested in attending."
– July 31, 2018 Facebook statement. newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/r…

The A💤tlan Warriors Page is an interesting case:

14 of their uploaded videos pulled in 1,494,000 views ⁉️over the past year. One AW video in February (below) had 931,902 👀 logged views.

Tautologically speaking, of course. As it turns out, social networks are, by definition, 'hyper-local.' But are they —'farm-to-phone'🌾🚚📱? 🤣 bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…

Met and hung out w/ A.B. nearly a decade ago. Irreverent and raw but with a true heart. A sensitive human being. One of my few idols. Around the same time, my friend and I also exchanged hilarious emails with his regular (and ⭐️) travel companion @ZamirGotta I see Zamir hasn't changed

https://twitter.com/ZamirGotta/status/1005078283703193606?s=20

CubeYou, a reseller of academic FB user data (Apply Magic Sauce) was suspended from Facebook *after CNBC showed them the quizzes* cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/08…

If there were a podium at the personal data leaking insecure designed-surveillance technology Olympics:

🥇Android
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🥈Adobe Flash and🥉Facebook

https://twitter.com/d1gi/status/977346855804665857

Android platform offers hardware-level access for apps (eg, direct connection to GPS/cell chips, ability to place/receive calls w/o user input, monitor incoming texts/DMs, camera/mic, read-write to phone memory, etc). There weren't even app-level privacy controls until last year.

Platform accountability requires a rethinking of data streams as "units of culture," as well a renegotiation of user rights for information they produce through opt-out social infrastructures. @amelia_acker #EAW18 Federal environmental records/websites, esp. those related to climate change have seen removal of scientific measurement & impact data, but also effort to remove terminology itself. References to terms like "climate change" being id'd & removed, for example (Hanna Morris, UPenn)

Getting lots of questions, so I'm posting a thread with an outline of key points to focus on in stories re: privacy implications and questions of Facebook's Graph API. The Graph API is the underlying issue in Cambridge Analytica & FB data-sharing & voter micro-targeting debacle. /1 The problematic collection of Facebook users' personal info and extensive info about their friends is due to Facebook's Graph API v1.0. It was a developer (ie, app-level) feature. Version 1.0 launched on April 21, 2010, was deprecated in April 2014, & closed on April 30, 2015.

Thx @carolecadwalla for believing in what probably sounded like the world's craziest billionaire-funded tech conspiracy at the time. A year and a half later, it's real. Friday night news releases, non-responses. A systematic pattern of aversion and denial. theguardian.com/technology/201… Just like "Russia," this is more about lack of rules, transparency, oversight, regulations, platform accountability than "CA." Unethical people will always do bad things when we make it easy for them and there are few—if any—lasting repercussions

Unsophisticated, potentially serious exploit found in Facebook Custom Audiences—allows unauthorized collection of users' phone numbers, email addresses & other personally identifying info. Presented at FTC PrivacyCon by team of cybersecurity researchers. ftc.gov/system/files/d…