I once made an account called dikembe mutombo back when espn had comments and used Facebook for them.
I got deleted for not being a real person.
This shit right here is a huge problem. One of the major reasons it’s happening the way it’s happening is that we’ve gathered all the lawmakers in one place. Step 1 should be to make Congress a telework job and have the members live and work, with their staff, full time in the capitol city of their state. This will make them much more accessible to constituents and will make it less possible for lobbyists to become 90% of these people’s social contacts.
This is a good idea not because it’s going to totally fix the problem but because it sounds good and neither party has a position on it. You give the people who want to seem bipartisan an easy win, and it accidentally does an enormous amount of damage to K street.
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This makes sense.
But why make them leave their district?
Biggest city in their district is fine for house members.
Why do they have to leave home?
Facebook moderators stumped by white supremacists using their actual name as listed by the ADL. How could anyone stop them.
Also
Searches for known hate groups are supposed to direct users to the page for Life After Hate, a nonprofit group that seeks to deradicalize right-wing extremists. But that only worked in 14 of the 221 searches the researchers performed.
Their hands are tied.
In 2017, an internal task force found that reducing polarization on the site would also reduce engagement. The task force was soon disbanded, and most of its suggested fixes were shelved.
I will note when they do something “good”.
But then again …
Good chance if you use Facebook and have them your phone number it is now publicly connected to you forever.
Before anyone rushes to change numbers too, kind of sucks. I changed numbers recently not thinking about it and so many services use cell phone numbers for security with no easy way to switch. It can be annoying for a while as you try to navigate every service and website to update anything.
Why do we have to worry so much about information that used to be readily available in phone books?
I don’t know. I never had a listed phone number in my adult life.
Right. I understand the anger in the sense of “I trusted Facebook to protect my data and they said they would, but they didn’t”. But I am not sure how exposed I would be if someone has my name, cell phone number, and address. I’m sure there’s a risk but its not as clear as if someone had all my credit card info or bank account numbers and passwords, etc.
Thanks. The other thing tha occurs to me is that having both my name and number makes it easier for scammers to spoof me if they also have contact info for people that know me
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If your data has been online long enough, it’s been leaked on multiple occasions already
Go to www.haveibeenpwned.com and see how many times your data has been leaked. You’ll see that incidents like these are a long, long list of instances where your personal data was hacked
Yeah but I get “free credit monitoring,” all good!
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I had noticed an uptick in people trying to gain access to my email lately. I was wondering which site had a leak recently. At least I have never willingly given my phone number to facebook.
Favorite post of the week:
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But your still and idiom.
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I would just take it as a reminder that you should conduct all your affairs as though this information and similar information is all publicly available to anyone who wants it.
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It’s not hard to make new email accounts and a password manager makes it easier to remember log-ins.
I made a new account in registering for this forum, for example.