2024-01-29
We must pay attention to this. @ncri_io well done. Financial sextortion of minors is grotesque.
NBC News
Researchers: financial sextortion of young users on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube is rising, driven by Yahoo Boys, a West African cybercriminal gang
2024-01-28
We must pay attention to this. @ncri_io well done. Financial sextortion of minors is grotesque.
NBC News
Researchers: financial sextortion of young users on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube is rising, driven by Yahoo Boys, a West African cybercriminal gang
“Yahoo Boys” is an informal network of cybercriminals who have gained cultural clout over the last several years in West Africa.
2021-10-24
Data and CT experts like me knew this; a monetized radicalization pipeline “After the Capitol insurrection and a wave of Storm the Capitol events across the country, we realized that the individual delegitimizing Groups, Pages, and slogans did constitute a cohesive movement.” https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
2021-03-20
I think this needs to be thought through “just a bit” before implementing. Could be that this attracts the very thing that it's trying to protect against... https://twitter.com/...
BuzzFeed News
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
BuzzFeed News :
2021-03-19
I think this needs to be thought through “just a bit” before implementing. Could be that this attracts the very thing that it's trying to protect against... https://twitter.com/...
BuzzFeed News
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13 …