Meta-terrorism: When the algorithm fails you, social media platforms are quick to punish you ‘for being a victim’

Meta-terrorism: When the algorithm fails you, social media platforms are quick to punish you ‘for being a victim’

Meta’s customer service apparatus effectively does not exist for the non-elite user. There is no direct phone number. No accountable human being. No real-time support. No escalation pathway that actually works.

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When a social media platform fails a person: The human cost of being hacked and not believed

Today, a criminal operating out of Nigeria – according to security alerts I provided to Meta – continues to use my name and brand. I have submitted proof showing Nigerian access to my accounts. I have submitted alerts confirming unauthorized logins. I have reported extortion attempts. I have documented how, after I recovered WhatsApp, the hacker attempted to extort me for money to “return” my account.

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After Rwandan Tutsi refugees installed Museveni in Uganda, there’s suspicion they want to reign in Great Lakes Region ‘genetically’

After Rwandan Tutsi refugees installed Museveni in Uganda, there’s suspicion they want to reign in Great Lakes Region ‘genetically’

Perturbed people in East Africa think, believe and are convinced the expanded economic region would be politically dominated by Rwandan nomadic pastoralists in the same fashion they dominated their ancient Kitara Kingdom that spread over Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and parts of Zambia before the emergence of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom of the Babito.

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Ethical questions raised about why leading US news outlets spiked leaked insider information from Trump campaign

Ethical questions raised about why leading US news outlets spiked leaked insider information from Trump campaign

The three newspapers’ decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives and mainstream news organisations covered them avidly.

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Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations

Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York said in an email that “the Iranian government neither possesses nor harbours any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.”

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