A few weeks ago, an Austin mom named Katie saw someone in a local buy/sell group offering to give away a new Macbook. The poster said they bought the computer as a gift for their husband but caught him cheating. To get back at him they were giving the brand-new…
‘They think they’re in love:’ online Romance Scams increasing in Cambria County | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
{p}Officials with the Cambria County AAA says members of international gangs overseas make fake profiles on dating websites or Facebook targeting vulnerable, lonely, older women.{/p} CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Imagine going on a dating website looking for love, but ending up falling for a scammer. The “master of disguise”…
Crypto’s Link to Stocks Is Fraying. This Slump Will Test the Floor. | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
The current market selloff suggests that when stocks sneeze, cryptocurrencies can come down with something worse than a cold. Crypto’s correlation with stocks had become well established last year as institutional investors piled into the assets and it became more established. The link managed to hold even after Russia’s invasion…
How Facebook’s Algorithms Decide What You See in Your News Feed | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here. In a presentation dated May 6, 2018, a Facebook employee asked, “Is Ranking Good?” “Probably. Even asking the question feels slightly blasphemous at Facebook,” the same…
Facebook Sees Decline in Users for First Time In Its History | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
Image: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) Though at times it seemed unlikely this day would ever come, the Facebook era of unrelenting user growth has finally come to an end. For the first time in its nearly 18-year-history, Facebook’s users have actually declined. According to parent company Meta’s Q4 earnings presentation,…
Facebook Patented a Mechanical Eyeball | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
It’s well known at this point that the company previously known as Facebook is spending billions of dollars in resources to transport as many of its users as possible out of the real world and plop them into an avatar-filled metaverse. What’s less talked about though are the ways Meta…