Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money
It turns out moving fast and breaking things might … AJ Dellinger / Engadget : Facebook willingly let kids spend their parents' money and didn't stop it Alan Martin / Inquirer : Facebook is lovely but misunderstood, says lovely but misunderstood Facebook founder Alex Hern / The Guardian : Facebook let children run up huge bills, court papers show Jamie Davies / Telecoms.com : Facebook sails towards sh*t storm of child exploitation and ‘friendly fraud’ Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Facebook allegedly ignored children's overspending on online games Silviu Stahie / Softpedia News : Facebook Tricked Kids into Paying Money in Games, Court Documents Show Alex Allegro / 9to5Mac : Facebook's ‘Friendly Fraud’ — report reveals social media knowingly scammed children as Zuckerberg publishes WSJ column Dave Lee / BBC : Facebook did not stop child app payments, internal documents reveal James Cook / Telegraph : Facebook accused of tricking children into spending thousands playing online games Facebook: Brianna Wu : “Friendly Fraud.” — That's what Facebook called their scheme … Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Wow. Unsealed court records show Facebook encouraged game developers to let children spend money without their parents permission—what they called ‘friendly fraud’—and Facebook knew some kids didn't know they were even spending money. Hundreds, thousands http://www.revealnews.org/... http://twitter.com/... Lindsey Barrett / @lam_barrett : This story about FB bilking children is egregious. They knew kids were accidentally spending thousands of dollars that their parents were unaware of, & both allowed it to continue & made refunds hard to get in order to protect the revenue from these “whales” at all costs. http://twitter.com/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : Yikes: Facebook reportedly got underage users to rack up huge bills on their parents' credit cards while playing games on the platform — and ignored employees who tried to raise a red flag http://www.revealnews.org/... http://twitter.com/... @lisanani25 : I saw this story coming years ago. It's why I never invested in crap like Farmville or FB Sims. Facebook was utilizing the pay to win formula long before any game in app stores knew. They're just now getting clocked for it cause it's a shady practice http://twitter.com/... Nathan Halverson / @ewords : We got 100+ internal Facebook documents unsealed. What they show isn't pretty. Facebook targeted children to make money. Here are all the details, just released tonight: https://www.revealnews.org/... Marcelo Calbucci / @calbucci : This tweet will not age well: http://twitter.com/... http://twitter.com/... @mattnavarra : I read every article i share about Facebook in fullFB gets lots of negative media coverage related to its business practicesIMO... Most of it seems fair and well-reported.Occasionally it's notBut i'm finding it hard to excuse Facebook with this one http://www.revealnews.org/... @marieagar : “An internal Facebook survey of users found that many parents did not even realize Facebook was storing their credit card information, according to an unsealed document. And parents also did not know their children could use their credit card without re-entering the password.” http://twitter.com/... @lfasoccerschool : Facebook satisfied it's financial need years ago. It continues to demonstrate that it will never satisfy it's greed. To prey on children is weak and poisonous. Shame on you Zuckerberg. http://twitter.com/... Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive : Facebook refused to reverse more than $6,000 mistakenly charged to a credit card by an underage girl even though there was reason to believe the charges were accidental http://bit.ly/2CEHlmA pic.twitter.com/29GOBk7eWv Peter J. Hasson / @peterjhasson : “Facebook encouraged game developers to let children spend money without their parents' permission - something the social media giant called ‘friendly fraud’ - in an effort to maximize revenues, according to a document detailing the company's game strategy” http://twitter.com/...