Sentences with phrase «fake company accounts»

Not exact matches

While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake news, and other posts.

Royce asked why, if Stumpf knew that there were fake accounts, the company did not note that in its filings when listing cross-selling metrics.

The California - based finance company has struggled to maintain steady gains after its major fake accounts scandal broke back in 2016.

These do not appear to be fake accounts, and since they don't seem to have violated any laws or Facebook policies, the company does not appear to be taking any action against them.

Companies take shortcuts instead of putting forth the requisite effort (such as Wells Fargo creating thousands of fake accounts for their customers) which harm their own bottom lines.

Jacky also confirmed reports in local news media that many drivers log fraudulent Uber rides using fake passenger accounts to get some of the bonuses the company is offering.

While the company spent heavily on TV ads and discounts to woo consumers, its operations were plagued with poor technology, accounts of swindling by fake restaurants, and theft by employees and contractors, the Mint newspaper reported in September.

«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.

The company said last summer that the number of fake accounts jumped to 3.5 million from its past estimate of 2.1 million.

The company says it's blocking «millions of fake accounts each day at the point of creation.»

Corporate account takeover is a type of fraud where thieves gain access to a business» finances to make unauthorized transactions, including transferring funds from the company, creating and adding new fake employees to payroll, and stealing sensitive customer information that may not be recoverable.

That said, half - way decent spread betting companies will check you out pretty thoroughly before you start, they'll offer a «demo» account where you can trade with «fake money» (ie.

Be cautious of fake social accounts pretending to be a legitimate company - always check that the page name or handle is the genuine account.

We originally were going to refinance with our current mortgage company in a 30 year mortgage (I'll call them Fake Account Inc.) but they dragged their feet and took forever to get our refi going.

Despite the scathing satire, a spokesman for the oil company say they don't plan on fighting to have the fake account taken down.

He would then set up passports, e-mail accounts, and toll - free phone numbers for the Canadian company's fake employees.

If most of them are either completely positive or negative, it might be a case of the company hiring fake reviewers (or simply making them themselves with fake accounts) to even out the score ratio.

Both also provide detailed accounts of how the companies» security operations dealt with foreign interference and fake accounts in the lead - up to the 2016 presidential election, as well as the respective steps they are taking to prevent foreign meddling in the future.

Additionally, the company also will soon require people who run Facebook pages with large numbers of followers to go through an authorization process, as it looks to make it harder for fake accounts to spread divisive content that has the potential to go viral.

Zuckerberg said that while the company respects «people and governments sharing political views on Facebook,» it would remove the pages of any organization that attempted repeatedly to set up fake accounts intended to mislead users.

But Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he would like to know exactly what the company has done to find covert Russian activity and what it has discovered so far about fake accounts — including their reach and impact.

The company waged a global fight against fake news by cracking down on tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts, partnering with fact checkers and running full - page ads in newspapers with tips to spot fabricated stories.

In a Facebook post discussing the move, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that since discovering the Russian interference, the company had «improved our techniques to prevent nation states from interfering in foreign elections, and we've built more advanced AI tools to remove fake accounts more generally.»

So far, it has fact - checkers to flag false news reports in News Feed, for example, and the company said it had «taken action» against 30,000 accounts fake accounts in France, which is currently in the midst of its own heated election.

According to the Ethereum founder, it has been more than five days since he first reported the fake accounts to Facebook and Instagram, but the companies have yet to remove them.

Researchers said that those tools are still widely available and that while the company has worked to remove fake accounts and stem the flow of disinformation, it has refused to let outside researchers examine the data on how Russian actors used the platform so effectively.

Apparently, a known Russian front company managed to use «Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rally in Idaho,» which were promoted using ads paid for by the same network of fake accounts.

The company also listed out steps it has implemented towards curbing fake accounts and stories on the platform.

Spotify also came under fire in 2017 for allegedly creating «fake artist» accounts to avoid paying significant royalties, although the company denied these claims.

On top of adding filters to make such links end up on people's timelines, the company has been working hard to eliminate fake accounts that can be used to share these stories.

The company in the past two years has worked to understand and counteract the spread of misinformation on its site, the use of its automated advertising system for racist targeting, the proliferation of fake user accounts and the spread of violent video.

Democratic lawmakers in recent days had demanded that Facebook be more open about what it knows and to dig more deeply into its troves of data to analyze the propaganda effort, which the company has acknowledged involved at least 470 fake accounts created by a shadowy Russian company that spent more than $ 100,000 targeting U.S. voters.