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Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts (www.engadget.com)
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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I'm not buying for a minute that anything was "discovered", other than that they didn't pay their protection bill. Meta/Facebook seems to have tolerated worse and more obvious abuses for decades.