Tag: Fake Profiles
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Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty ‘Ladies’
Hamas has been caught taking a classic “catfish” approach, to tempt Israeli soldiers into installing spyware on their phones. Members …
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Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology …
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#FacebookLockout: Users who report fake/scam accounts locked out
People who are just trying to be good citizens of Facebookland, by reporting fake accounts set up by, say, a scammer pretending to be their …
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Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges
Did you know that between 2013 and at least mid-2018, between 25% and 30% of profiles on dating site Match.com were reportedly fake? As in, …
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The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots
Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term …
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