脸书的争议事件

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• Meta’s Oversight Board Orders the Company to Remove Deepfake Videos From Facebook

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• Bank Leumi has filed a NIS 26.6 million lawsuit against Meta in Tel Aviv District Court, alleging that fraudulent advertisements impersonating the bank on Facebook and Instagram are being used to steal customers’ sensitive information and access their accounts.

• The fraudulent advertisements allegedly use Bank Leumi’s name and trademarks without authorization while offering fake promotions, including shopping vouchers and vehicle raffles.

• The bank claims Meta’s screening and monitoring systems are insufficient to detect and prevent the scams before they reach users.

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• A New Mexico court has ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million over alleged harms to young users on Facebook and Instagram.

• The ruling that was issued by Judge Bryan Biedscheid in the second phase of a landmark trial directed $420 million of the amount to be used for treatment services for young people.

• The order follows a March jury verdict that imposed $375 million in civil penalties on Meta after finding that the company knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed information related to child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

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• Judge Bryan Biedscheid of Santa Fe also ordered various changes to the way Meta’s platforms operate for children using them in New Mexico after ruling yesterday (6 August) that the ‌company had created a “public nuisance” in the state.

• Social media and tech giant Meta has been fined $567m by a court in the US state of New Mexico, with the money to be used to address harms caused to young people by its Instagram and Facebook platforms.

• WhatsApp, the third Meta-owned platform under scrutiny in the case, was found by the court not to be a “contributing cause to the public nuisance” and therefore would not be subject to the same orders as Instagram and Facebook.

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• The Libra Association, the non-profit that will govern the currency, officially signed on 21 charter members on Monday at the organisation’s inaugural meeting in Geneva.

• Politicians have said they believe Facebook’s struggles with protecting users’ privacy would spill over into Libra, despite it being a separate organization.

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• The suit names four defendants: Facebook, Calibra, a Facebook subsidiary that owns IP related to Calibra, and Character, the design agency that made the Calibra logo.

• Current, a startup bank. Apparently, Current agreed, so much so that it somewhat similarhas filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging trademark infringement.

• a mobile banking app has sued the social network's Calibra subsidiary over their very similar logos.

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• New York AG Leticia James, who is leading the probe, made the announcement Tuesday that 39 more states had joined her investigative effort since she first announced it last month.

• Our investigation now has the support of 47 attorneys general from around the nation, who are all concerned that Facebook may have put consumer data at risk, reduced the quality of consumers’ choices, and increased the price of advertising.

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• Facebook today (21 October) introduced steps to safeguard its site against misinformation and check political advertisers, without committing to taking down political ads with such false claims.

• The company is updating its ad library to make it more transparent, and rolling out a US presidential candidate ad spend tracker.

• Over the next month, content across Facebook and Instagram that has been rated false or partly false by a third-party fact-checker will start to be more prominently labeled so that people can better decide for themselves what to read, trust and share,

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• 澄清 — Libra Association

  Today, we are carrying out a normal course of work with regulators to show them that, in terms of anti-money laundering, the (Libra) system will be at least equivalent to the conventional monetary system

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• The head of the Libra Association, created by Facebook to launch its new cryptocurrency, said Thursday the project’s leaders would aim to “reassure” regulators who have voiced mounting concern over the virtual money.

• Today, we are carrying out a normal course of work with regulators to show them that, in terms of anti-money laundering, the (Libra) system will be at least equivalent to the conventional monetary system

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• Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday won dismissal of an investor lawsuit accusing them of deceiving investors about the likely impact of a privacy breach on its stock price, though the investors will have a chance to refile their case.

• US District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California said the investors had failed to allege that Facebook or its executives knowingly made false statements that led to investor losses.

• The investors focus on a privacy breach, first reported in December 2015, that allowed Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, to access data for an estimated 87 million Facebook users.

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• Stackla has itself sued Facebook, claiming that Facebook's decision to block Stackla's access to Facebook and Instagram public data was just a face-saving exercise following Facebook's Cambridge Analytica fiasco, which was unfairly killing Stackla's business.

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• 澄清 — Facebook

  Stone said “purposely” focusing on its support for one organization would serve to “distract from our lengthy track record of supporting groups from across the political spectrum”.

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• Facebook is facing criticism for sponsoring the annual gala dinner of the Federalist Society, the powerful rightwing legal group behind the nomination of the conservative supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh.

• The event drew protests on Thursday evening, including a large video screen playing the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychologist who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

• Stone said “purposely” focusing on its support for one organization would serve to “distract from our lengthy track record of supporting groups from across the political spectrum”.

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• Facebook is sponsoring an event at which US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is speaking — a move that risks employee unrest, and that has sparked immediate protests from activist groups.

• On Thursday, political newsletter Popular Information reported that Facebook will be a "gold sponsor" for an upcoming convention by conservative law group The Federalist Society, at which Kavanaugh will appear as the keynote speaker on Thursday.

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• A law student at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is suing Facebook after the company removed his posts that named the White House whistleblower.

• The lawsuit claims Facebook violated the student’s First Amendment right to free speech and says the process of removing posts is totally opaque.

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• 澄清 — Facebook

  简单来说，是的。

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• Facebook周四表示，英国执政的保守党分享的一段剪辑过的视频如果作为付费广告来投放，那么不违反其关于政治广告的规定，并表示这段视频促进了公众对这个话题的讨论。

• “来自政党和政治候选人的广告不受我们事实核查规则的约束。”她表示，“这意味着，保守党所投放广告的内容是公众辩论的主题，而这也是因为人们可以看到辩论的存在。”

• 欧盟反垄断负责人玛格丽特·维斯塔格（Margrethe Vestager）周四批评Facebook继续投放政治广告的做法。

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• 整改 — Facebook

  We have since removed their access.

• 整改 — Facebook

  we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained, and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted

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• In a fresh disclosure, the social media company said it recently found that some apps had retained access to group member information, like names and profile pictures in connection with group activity from the Groups API, for longer than it was intended.

• We know at least 11 partners accessed group members’ information in the last 60 days. Although we’ve seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained, and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted,

• We have since removed their access.

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• The social network has filed a lawsuit against domain name registrar OnlineNIC and its privacy/proxy service ID Shield for registering addresses that were clearly created to appear as if they're affiliated with Facebook.

• According to a copy of the lawsuit TechCrunch posted, Facebook is asking for a permanent injunction against OnlineNIC's activities and is also asking for damages.

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• 调查 — Facebook

  The social media giant said it’s reviewing the complaint.

• 澄清 — Facebook

  Our policies have long prohibited discrimination and we’re proud of the strides we’re making in this area.

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• Facebook was sued over claims that tailored advertising for financial services on the social media network discriminates against its older and female users who might be interested in products such as mortgages, personal loans and insurance.

• The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, alleges Facebook helped financial services companies target users based on age and gender, resulting in younger people and men getting a disproportionate number of services and opportunities.

• The social media giant said it’s reviewing the complaint.

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• 就“剑桥分析”数据泄露一事，Facebook答应支付50万英镑（约合64.3万美元）用做赔偿金。

• Facebook终于承认2016年美国总统大选时，通过违规获取5000万用户信息帮助特朗普赢得总统大选。

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• Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield for registering domain names that pretend to be associated with Facebook, like www-facebook-login.com or facebook-mails.com, for example.

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• 今日，Facebook与ICO就Facebook在政治竞选中滥用个人数据的调查达成和解，同意支付50万英镑的赔偿金。

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• Facebook has removed multiple misleading accounts, pages and groups originating in Russia that targeted members of the social network in African countries.

• Gleicher said the "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" operations targeted Madagascar, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, and Cameroon.

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• 否认 — NSO

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• WhatsApp has sued an Israeli surveillance firm, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of more than 1000 users across four continents.

• In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20 countries.

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• 持续披露 — WhatsApp

  WhatsApp said the company sent a warning note to all the affected 1,400 users impacted by this attack, directly informing them about what happened.

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• Facebook filed a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, alleging that the company was actively involved in hacking users of its end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messaging service.

• The flaw (CVE-2019-3568) successfully allowed attackers to silently install the spyware app on targeted phones by merely placing a WhatsApp video call with specially crafted requests, even when the call was not answered.

• Pegasus allows access to an incredible amount of data from victims' smartphones remotely, including their text messages, emails, WhatsApp chats, contact details, calls records, location, microphone, and camera.

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• Facebook is seeking to have NSO barred from accessing or attempting to access WhatsApp and Facebook’s services and is seeking unspecified damages.

• Facebook is suing an Israeli cybersecurity company over claims it hacked WhatsApp users earlier this year.

• Facebook Inc on Tuesday sued Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group, alleging it hacked users of messaging platform WhatsApp earlier this year.

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• 澄清 — Facebook

  “People count on us to protect the integrity of our apps and services,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “We don’t tolerate people creating web addresses that pretend to be associated with our family of apps. Today’s lawsuit shows we will take action against those behind this abuse.”

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• The company filed its lawsuit on Monday in the US District Court of the Northern District of California. It accuses web hosts OnlineNIC and ID Shield of trademark infringement and cybersquatting.

• The two companies have been hosting websites like “HackingFacebook.net,” which offers tools for phishing and hacking Facebook accounts, according to the lawsuit.

• Facebook filed a lawsuit against two web hosting companies with the aim of removing sites that offer tools for phishing and hacking accounts on the social network and Instagram.

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• 退款或补偿 — Facebook

  它还向那些账户被ILikeAd用来经营未经授权广告的客户发放了超过400万美元的退款。

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• Facebook表示，这使得被告能够劫持用户的广告账户，即所谓的"账户接管欺诈"，从而违反了Facebook的服务条款和广告政策。

• Facebook在申诉中提出了尚未详细说明的损失赔偿请求，以及要求禁止该公司在Facebook上的业务。

• Facebook周四起诉了一家香港公司，声称该公司诱使人们点击名人的照片和虚假的广告链接，从而安装恶意软件，并为假冒商品、减肥药和男士性功能增强剂做广告。

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• The lawsuit is also filed against the company ILikeAds, a Hong Kong based advertising business that promoted itself as a “one-stop comprehensive solution to advertisers.”

• The two alleged hackers would take over their victims’ accounts and use the victims’ money to buy ads for fraudulent products like diet pills, male enhancement supplements and counterfeit goods, according to the lawsuit.

• Facebook filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Chinese citizens, accusing them of operating a hacking campaign targeting ad accounts on the social network.

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• In a decision late Tuesday night, US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said neither credit monitoring costs nor the reduced value of stolen personal information was a “cognisable injury” that supported a class action for damages.

• Users were allowed to sue as a group to require Facebook to employ automated security monitoring, improve employee training, and educate people better about hacking threats.

• Alsup rejected Facebook’s claim that these were unnecessary because it had fixed the bug that caused the breach.

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• In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said neither credit monitoring costs nor the reduced value of stolen personal information was a "cognizable injury" that supported a class action for damages.

• A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc <FB.O> users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but can seek better security at the social media company after a series of privacy lapses.

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• 调查 — Facebook

  经过调查，我们将违反平台政策的应用从我们的平台删除，并向One Audience和Mobiburn发出禁止令。

• 人事处理 — Facebook

  经过调查，我们将违反平台政策的应用从我们的平台删除，并向One Audience和Mobiburn发出禁止令。

• 持续披露 — Facebook

  对于授权这些应用访问自己个人资料，从而导致信息可能泄露的用户，我们计划发出通知。

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• Facebook和Twitter收到来自安全研究人员的报告称，他们发现名为One Audience的软件开发工具包允许第三方开发者访问个人数据，包括使用Twitter帐户登录Giant Square和Photofy等应用的用户电子邮件地址、用户名和最近发布的Twitter消息。

• Facebook发言人就周一的事件发表了以下声明：“安全研究人员最近通知我们，有两个恶意行为者，分别是One Audience和Mobiburn。他们向开发者付费，让他们在热门应用商店的某些应用中集成恶意的软件开发工具包。经过调查，我们将违反平台政策的应用从我们的平台删除，并向One Audience和Mobiburn发出禁止令。对于授权这些应用访问自己个人资料，从而导致信息可能泄露的用户，我们计划发出通知。

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• Baron Cohen also condemned Facebook for running political adverts without fact-checking.

• “If you pay them, Facebook will run any ‘political’ ad you want, even if it’s a lie,” he said.

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• 整改 — Facebook

  the patch was made 2 days later and Facebook was disabled the "View As" feature 3 days later.

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• Turkish Data Protection Board ("Board") fined Facebook for 256.222 EUR with its decision of September 18, 2019.

• The breach is due to a system deficit causing an attacker reaching profile data of a third party if the "View As" mode is used with a video uploader.

• The intervention was late as the patch was made 2 days later and Facebook was disabled the "View As" feature 3 days later.