Facebook megathread

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”

 

[von Hapasbourg]

They brought down a doge group, a recipe posting group, and a star wars shitposting group. Funny enough, many normalfags are now starting to hate furries because this indon furfag decided to be a janny for faceberg

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Im' somehow surprised Indonesia doesn't flog furries.

They should.

I’m just disappointed they didn’t throw him from the rooftops but a beating is better than nothing I guess.

 

[von Hapasbourg]

So apparently, this was the reason to why this whole shitshow started. Someone posted a mecca meme on CNAF and this retard was calling for its culling in that Indonesian reporting group.

Spoiler

This was her(?) reasoning to why she(?) reported it. If someone can speak indon here, please translate this bitch's(?) response

Spoiler: its reasoning

 

[A shitty ass clover]

>Indonesian Furries

Why am i somehow amazed?

 

[Chaos Theorist]

So apparently, this was the reason to why this whole shitshow started. Someone posted a mecca meme on CNAF and this exceptional individual was calling for its culling in that Indonesian reporting group.

Spoiler

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This was her(?) reasoning to why she(?) reported it. If someone can speak indon here, please translate this bitch's(?) response

Spoiler: its reasoning

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Based Honkler serving his purpose as an avatar of Kek

 

[Bob Page]

They're furries.

That's explanation enough.

Eh, either way, they get purged all the same.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Sounds like Facebook is the Britain of the web.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

Using Facebook in 2019 is akin to smoking a pack a day while eating fast food and living next to Chernobyl.

I don't even know who to root for: the Facebook Boomertards or the Degenerate Furfags.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Using Facebook in 2019 is akin to smoking a pack a day while eating fast food and living next to Chernobyl.

I don't even know who to root for: the Facebook Boomertards or the Degenerate Furfags.

The ones that dont fuck innocent animals

 

[PantsFreeZone]

The ones that dont fuck innocent animals

So you root for the ones that fuck guilty animals? That's fucked up, bro.

 

[Diabeetus]

Here's the article

Facebook said it shut down 265 fake accounts run by an Israeli social media company on Thursday for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” as it sought to affect politics in African, Latin American and Southeast Asian nations.

The move, while underscoring the increasingly global nature of social media disinformation campaigns, was unusual for singling out a company that appeared to profit from its publicized work to spread falsehoods online. Archimedes Group, the Israeli company, claims the ability to “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes.”

The fake accounts were on both Facebook and its photo-sharing sister site, Instagram, the company said. Archimedes Group is now banned from both.

“We’re taking down these Pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted,” said a post by Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of global cybersecurity policy. “As in other cases involving coordinated inauthentic behavior, the individuals behind this activity coordinated with one another to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing, and that was the basis for our action.”

Facebook said the Archimedes Group had 65 Facebook accounts, 161 Facebook pages, 23 Facebook groups and four Instagram accounts. It also had posted 12 Facebook events. About 2.8 million accounts followed at least one of the pages set up by the Archimedes Group, and the company’s accounts bought $812,000 in ads using various currencies, dating back to 2012, according to Facebook.

Archimedes Group did not respond to a request for comment made through its website.

Archimedes Group engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” mainly in African nations, including Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, Angola and Niger, with some activity also in Southeast Asia and Latin America, Facebook said.

But it is unclear who may have paid for the organization to create those pages and purchase ads on Facebook.

“The useful thing about the ads is it gives us high confidence it was Archimedes, but it doesn’t give us high confidence who was paying Archimedes," said Graham Brookie, the director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council. "It shows one of the vulnerabilities of some of [Facebook’s] transparency tools.”

“It is disinformation for money,” Brookie added. “It’s the convergence of ideological disinformation, and disinformation for economic gain.”

The tactics resembled those used by Russia’s Internet Research Agency to interfere in the U.S. election in 2016 and after the election of President Trump. The fake accounts set up by the Archimedes Group, Facebook said, typically posed as news organizations or other local actors in spreading information about political candidates, including in some cases from supposed leaks.

U.S. technology companies previously have shut down disinformation campaigns based in Russia, Iran and Venezuela, and experts say the tactics now are widely deployed across the world, including in the United States by domestic political actors.

Graham Brookie summed this story up perfectly with this quote, tucked deeply into the latter half of the article:

“It is disinformation for money. It’s the convergence of ideological disinformation, and disinformation for economic gain.”

You can't make this shit up.

 

[Rand /pol/]

If they want to get rid of disinformation then why not just range ban Russia.

 

[Y2K Baby]

"Election manipulation"
Also known as Facebook spam??????

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Anyone that bases their votes on Facebook ads and posts deserves whatever outcome they end up with.

 

[Rei is shit]

If they want to get rid of disinformation then why not just range ban Russia.

This is completely off-topic but I once tried to go to gop.com through a russian vpn and the website refused the request. Unsurprisingly dnc.com worked just fine.

 

[Far Queue]

Muslims in Shitholistan need to get a better hobby or a life than reporting dumb facebook groups.

Even the muzzies are turning into internet slacktivists. Back in the day they'd issue a fatwa or three and behead some infidels. The fuck is the world coming to?

 

[BONE_Buddy]

So when is facebook going to ban itself?

Oh, that's right, that which is already dead, cannot kill itself.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

So when is facebook going to ban itself?

Oh, that's right, that which is already dead, cannot kill itself.

I mean, facebook is so damn broken they actually took down a picture uploaded by Zuckerburg himself because enough people reported it as offensive.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Even the muzzies are turning into internet slacktivists. Back in the day they'd issue a fatwa or three and behead some infidels. The fuck is the world coming to?

The homogenization of the internet and real life.

 

[Mrs Paul]

They brought down a doge group, a recipe posting group, and a star wars shitposting group. Funny enough, many normalfags are now starting to hate furries because this indon furfag decided to be a janny for faceberg

A recipe group? WTF was that about?

Im' somehow surprised Indonesia doesn't flog furries.

They should.

I think someone who's a furry is probably the type who'd be into that, though.