2025-11-06
This doesn't come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: “the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day” — www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Reuters
Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
2025-06-10
“Among their clients is the FSB intelligence agency; a secretive “research computing center” that helped plan the invasion of Ukraine and developed tools to deanonymize internet users; and a flagship state-owned nuclear research laboratory.” — www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
OCCRP
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links
INVESTIGATION — The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. Bluesky: @kevinc...
2022-11-14
Here's a list of apps using the Russian company's code https://appcheck.mobilsicher.de/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
An investigation finds thousands of iOS and Android apps, including from the CDC and US Army, used Russia-based tech company Pushwoosh's code for notifications
Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple (AAPL.O) and Google's (GOOGL.O) online stores contain computer code developed …