On the same day Facebook announced that it had carried out its biggest purge yet of American accounts peddling disinformation, the company quietly made another revelation: It had removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government.
Facebook said Thursday that it had removed any accounts associated with SocialDataHub and its sister firm, Fubutech, because the companies violated its policies by scraping data from the social network.
“Facebook has reason to believe your work for the government has included matching photos from individuals’ personal social media accounts in order to identify them,” the company said in a cease-and-desist letter to SocialDataHub that was dated Tuesday and viewed by The New York Times.
Facebook gave the companies until Friday to detail what data they had taken and then delete it all.
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Yeah right. Just before the midterms. Then they make up a story about "Russians"! Hey. Mark, the Russians are not our enemy, you are. What on earth would a Russian do with my photo with my name attached to it that is available worldwide thanks to me posting it and everybody in all countries can see it? Your first story was that these sites were printing political stories and were making money off ads on their sites.
ReplyDeleteKind of like CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, and every news source in America, Canada, and every other country.
When that lead ballon wouldn't fly, now this story.
Democrats and their Russian Collusion stories. Where have I heard that before?