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http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/fraud/facebook-fraud.html

Evidence that Facebook's Revenue is Based on Fake "Likes"

I'd always wondered how some Facebook fan pages of people I'd never heard of had so many thousands of "Likes." I was told how, from my business partner, who runs BrasscheckTV. He told me that people in India were being paid slave wages to create fake "Likes" on Facebook. I suspect something similar is afoot on Twitter, as well.......

 

Published on Jan 14, 2014

WATCH THE FOLLOW-UP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHe...

 

The problem is much worse than I originally thought.

 

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Facebook is a complex ecosystem of individuals, creators, brands and advertisers, but I don't think it serves any of these groups particularly well because its top priority is to make money. Now, I don't think making money is a bad thing, in fact I hope to make some myself. The problem is the only way Facebook has found to make money is by treating all entities on the site as advertisers and charging them to share their content.

This business plan backfires because :

1) not all entities ARE advertisers and

2) it was the content from these people, specifically friends, family, and creators that made the site worth visiting in the first place.

 

Now the incentives are misaligned:
- individuals want to see great content, but they are now seeing more paid content and organically shared content which appeals to the lowest common denominator (babies, weddings, and banal memes)
- creators want to reach fans but their posts are being throttled to force them to pay to be seen
- brands and advertisers have to pay once to advertise their page on Facebook, and then pay again to reach the people who have already liked their page. Plus Facebook is not a place where people generally go to buy things.

Facebook stands in contrast to other social media like Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram where all content is shared with all followers.

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Good comments.

 

Bring The F---er down!

I never liked it much anyway - it is too controlling.

Probably it was set up by the CIA or the NSA anyway,

and has a huge component of its revenues from spying activities (just as Google has.)

 

One tapeworm like that is more than enough

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Facebook = Pure Freebucking 3VIL ?

 

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THE ZUCK

 

 

"Do not under-estimate his ambition"

"We gave them private, because we trusted them. The question is, should we still trust them?"

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Those friendly folk at SpyBook are oh-so-helpful !

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http://scgnews.com/facebooks-psychological-experiments-connected-to-department-of-defense-research-on-civil-unrest

 

Facebook's Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
There has been quite a bit of chatter this past week after it was revealed that a recent Facebook outage was the result of a psychological experiment that the company conducted on a portion of its users without their permission......
It turns out that this research was connected to a Department of Defense project called the Minerva Initiative, which funds universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world.....

The U.S. government hasn't sought these capabilities for the sake of science. We know from the Cuban Twitter scandal, where the U.S. State Department where got caught red handed attempting to topple the Cuban government through social media, that these capabilities are already being used for offensive operations. Combine that with the fact that the U.S. Military got exposed in 2011 for developing 'sock puppet' software to create fake online identities and spread propaganda and an ominous picture snaps into focus.
The U.S. government is militarizing social media through a combination of technology and social sciences, and Facebook is helping them.

 

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This is mostly about the abuses of SpyBook

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Jim Church did a recent show on Internet Privacy

 

Ep.88 FADE to BLACK Jimmy Church w/ Mark Weinstein NSA Internet Privacy LIVE on air

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You may not know this...

Facebook's default option is they grab permission "to listen to your mic everywhere, all the time"

(And that means your cellphone too.)

 

And they are pushing to get more and more data

 

A great ap, would be one that tells you when your mic is turned on, and who is taking feeds

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A Law Student takes on Spybook

 

Max Schrems: The Austrian Thorn In Facebook's Side
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Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student from Austria, has become one of Facebook's most prominent critics

There are likely many things about Facebook that annoy you. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could sit down for six hours with one of the company’s top executives to give him an earful about what you ‘dislike’ about the site? That’s what 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems got to do yesterday, thanks to his having filed dozens of complaints in Europe about Facebook’s data practices. On Monday, Facebook’s European director of policy (and former MP)Richard Allan and another unidentified California-based Facebook exec flew to Vienna to meet with Schrems for a whopping six hours to discuss his concerns.

Of Facebook’s 845 million users, Schrems may be the one most aggravating to the company. Last year, the 24-year-old Austrian law student spent a semester in the U.S. at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. When a professor invited Facebook privacy lawyer Ed Palmieri to speak to the class, Schrems was shocked by the lawyer’s limited grasp of the severity of data protection laws in Europe...

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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/07/the-austrian-thorn-in-facebooks-side/

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Time to short SpyBook - near $76-78 ?

 

($76 = 2X the $38 Launch price)

($18 = 1/2 X the $38)

 

FB ... update

 

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Fast Company

- ‎47 minutes ago‎











Facebook turned 12 today. It's been part of everyday life for long enough that an infinite number of articles have been published about its phenomenal success and the vision of its inventor and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Yet another reason to boycott Harvest-Book

 

Facebook Admits To Omitting Conservative Topics

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ZUCK :this was my life

 

Mark Zuckerberg \ Live from my old dorm room at Harvard \ 2017.05.23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-tkn9EcL_A

Published on May 24, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg \ Live from my old dorm room at Harvard \ 2017.05.23

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Zuck up for FB?

 

Mark Zuckerberg's snub of White House could backfire as Europe goes after U.S. Internet giants
  • Mark Zuckerberg went to Chicago this week to say that Facebook's new mission was to "bring people closer together" and "strengthen the social fabric."
  • Zuckerberg skipped a White House meeting where a top exec from chief rival Google spoke favorably of the President's agenda.
  • On Friday, Sheryl Sandberg met with U.K. Home Secretary amid mounting European pressure on U.S. internet giants.
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The Facebook CEO could either go to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, along with nearly every other marquee CEO from the tech industry, or skip it and prepare for a Chicago rally for people who'd created social-support groups on Facebook.

Zuckerberg, who loudly criticized Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords in early June, chose the latter. Facebook was alone among the five most-valuable U.S. tech firms in not sending a top executive to the White House meeting.

At that same meeting, a top official from Facebook's chief rival—Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt — sat at the table with Trump and praised the President's pro-business agenda, saying it would create "big opportunities" for U.S. firms.

The contrast between the two companies, which together dominate digital advertising, is stark when it comes to U.S. government relations.

 

> http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/24/zuckerbergs-snub-of-trump-could-boomerang-as-european-pressure-rises.html

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FB broke a support level ... update : FB-chart :

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FACEBOOK loses daily users for first time...

Getting Aggressive With Those Who Stopped Using...

Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada

It was a small but negative change to daily active users in Facebook’s most valuable market.

Here’s a troubling data point if you’re a Facebook investor: The company may have finally tapped out its most valuable market, the U.S. and Canada.

Facebook’s daily active user base in the U.S. and Canada fell for the first time ever in the fourth quarter, dropping to 184 million from 185 million in the previous quarter.

It’s a very small decline in a market that Facebook already dominates. But it’s also Facebook’s most valuable market, and any decline in usership — even a small one — isn’t a great sign.

Each user accounted for $26.76 worth of revenue for the company last quarter, and it went up by 35 percent over the same quarter last year.
It’s not clear why that segment got smaller. But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook’s service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election. Perhaps U.S users are grappling with that, too.

Overall, Facebook’s daily active user audience was up 32 million people in Q4. But it was the smallest quarter-over-quarter increase in two years.

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" the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook’s service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election"

?? WTF ? haha

No!.  People dislike the company's enormously strong political bias, its heavy-handedness, and its greediness.

And it is tone-deaf in seeing and addressing its real problem - it is a puppet of the deep state, & Zuck is a virtue-signaling Cuck

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More troubles for FB ... update

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Data Leak Puts FACEBOOK Under Intensifying Scrutiny...

Violated FTC privacy deal?

Lack of leadership could sink company...

  • Facebook's reaction to a year of scandal has vacillated between defensive cluelessness and aloof silence.
  • Users are getting the message that information they post on Facebook can be used in ways they did not intend, and usage is starting to decline.
  • Meanwhile, executives are selling shares like crazy, including a plan by Mark Zuckerberg to sell almost $13 billion worth of shares by mid-2019.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook

Facebook is facing an existential test, and its leadership is failing to address it.

Good leaders admit mistakes, apologize quickly, show up where they're needed and show their belief in the company by keeping skin in the game.

Facebook executives, in contrast, react to negative news with spin and attempts to bury it.

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Take it down!  Jail Zuckerberg for Insider trading

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Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media"

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"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post."

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Facebook fell as much as 8.1 percent to $170.06 on Monday in New York, wiping out all of the year’s gains so far. That marked the biggest intraday drop since August 2015.

Heat on Zuckerberg...

Facebook Inc. shares posted their steepest drop since 2015 as U.S. and European officials demanded answers to reports that a political advertising firm retained information on millions of the social network’s users without their consent.

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are calling on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to appear before lawmakers to explain how U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica, the data-analysis firm that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency, was able to harvest the personal information.

Facebook has already testified about how its platform was used by Russian propagandists ahead of the 2016 election, but the company never put Zuckerberg himself in the spotlight with government leaders. The pressure may also foreshadow tougher regulation for the social network.

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, have called on the chairman of the Judiciary Committee to bring in technology company CEOs, including from Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, for public questioning.

In a letter Monday to Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, Klobuchar and Kennedy said they have “serious concern regarding recent reports that data from millions of American was misused in order to influence voters.”

“The lack of oversight on how data is stored and how political advertisements are sold raises concerns about the integrity of American elections as well as privacy rights,” the senators wrote.

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Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops FACEBOOK Bombshell: 'They Were on Our Side'...

A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign.

In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the 2012 campaign led Facebook to “suck out the whole social graph” and target potential voters. They would then use that data to do things like append their email lists.

When Facebook found out what they were doing, they were “surprised,” she said. But she also claimed they didn’t stop them once they found out:

> https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/

Millions now say: Break it up (FB) ... and Lock him up (Zuck)

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ZUCK BUSY... Selling his FB shares

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg saw his net worth decline by about $5 billion Monday, but it could have been worse.

Ahead of Facebook’s worst one-day decline since 2012, prompted by news that data affecting 51.3 million members was improperly shared with a political consulting firm, Zuckerberg had been busy selling stock. So far this year, he has sold nearly 5 million shares.

Disposing of those Facebook FB, -6.77%  shares before Monday ended up saving about $40 million, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings and some arithmetic by MarketWatch. At Monday’s close, the 4.9 million shares Zuckerberg has sold this year under a predetermined plan would be worth $855 million. Zuckerberg made about $900 million selling those shares, according to calculations using average weighted prices reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

> more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zuckerberg-saved-tens-of-millions-by-selling-facebook-stock-ahead-of-monday-decline-2018-03-19

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Harvest Book is Zuck-ed

FEDS PROBE FACEBOOK
CRISIS MEETING WITHOUT ZUCKERBERG

Where's Zuckerberg?

Busy selling shares...

Summoned by UK lawmakers...

Facebook is holding an open meeting for all employees following allegations that data belonging to its users was harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

The company's chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg has not commented on the scandal nor made a public appearance since the story broke.

Mr Zuckerberg will not be present to lead Tuesday's meeting, which instead will be chaired by Facebook's deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of illegally harvesting the personal data of 50 million Facebook users.

The crisis meeting follows a stock fall which wiped $37bn (£26bn) off its value as investigations are launched by the UK's Information Commissioner as well as European authorities.

According to an internal calendar invitation seen by technology publication The Verge, the meeting is scheduled for 10am Pacific Time (5pm UK time) today.

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