Sentences with phrase «own fake accounts»

«Likes» from fake accounts may make your Facebook business page look popular or well - liked, but when it comes down to engaging with real people, the numbers don't add up.

What we found was that bad actors had used coordinated networks of fake accounts to interfere in the election: promoting or attacking specific candidates and causes, creating distrust in political institutions, or simply spreading confusion.

But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.

In the U.S. Senate Alabama special election last year, we deployed new AI tools that proactively detected and removed fake accounts from Macedonia trying to spread misinformation.

He made the announcement just one day after Facebook released an internal report that found nearly 500 fake accounts possibly tied to Russia bought ads with «divisive messages» between June 2015 and May 2017.

«If you look at the fake accounts, their followers, and who they're following, some patterns emerge.

Most of the fake accounts tend to follow thousands of people and don't have many followers themselves,» writes Adrianne Jeffries in Verge.

Only later did many readers notice that the authors were not in fact the well - known short - selling firms Muddy Waters and Citron Research, but rather two fake accounts using similar names with misspellings: @Mudd1waters and @Citreonresearc.

The next morning, almost all the money in the four fake accounts was transferred through a variety of accounts, obscuring, at least initially, the money's provenance.

The new feature is largely an attempt to curb fake accounts and «catfishing,» the act of using someone else's identity in an attempt to mislead others.

Twitter has also been criticized for the number of bots and fake accounts on its platform.

demanded that Wells Fargo CEO John G. Stumpf be fired in the wake of the bank's fake account scandal.

Warren got what she wanted from Stumpf, who'd blamed the bank's fake account scandal on some 5,300 employees.

Mr. Sloan, a veteran of the bank, took over as C.E.O. after his predecessor, John Stumpf, resigned after the eruption of a scandal involving Wells Fargo's creation of fake accounts.

Users are still able to create fake accounts, send harassing tweets, criticize you over and over again, remain completely anonymous, and come up with a variety of unflattering slams against celebrities that are never caught by the filters and go completely ignored for days or weeks on end.

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.

Wells promoted a go - go sales culture that exploded into scandal with the disclosure in 2013 that employees were opening fake accounts to generate bonuses for boosting sales.

Stumpf also said if there was a bias, it'd be that the fake accounts skewed more toward young people.

Warren also called for a criminal investigation of Stumpf, claiming that both the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission should look into whether the CEO knowingly misled investors by not disclosing the opening of the fake accounts in financial statements.

Republican Rep. Edward Royce of California asked whether a 2013 Los Angeles Times article that first brought the possibility of fake accounts to light ever made Stumpf think about de-emphasizing cross-selling.

A similar but separate policy will require administrators of large pages to be verified, which will «make it much harder for people to run pages using fake accounts, or to grow virally and spread misinformation or divisive content that way,» Zuckerberg writes.

And Wells Fargo (wfc), still dealing with the fallout of its fake accounts scandal, is up just 10 %, but Buffett's position has gained almost $ 2.5 billion in value over that time.

These emails, bad websites, or links, could be sent from fake accounts that are able to mimic the writing style of people's friends so they look real.

One tactic you need to avoid is creating new «personas,» or fake accounts, to support your position in blogs, forums and message boards, as you'll likely be caught.

Earlier this week, Vice reported on a Wells Fargo whistleblower who found employees opening up fake accounts as early as 2005, and contacted Tolstedt about the problem in 2006.

In September, Facebook said it had found evidence that fake accounts «likely operated out of Russia» purchased thousands of ads during the 2016 US presidential election.

The bank, which has labored under a fake accounts scandal and other black eyes since September 2016, is being targeted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The bank has been struggling with intense regulatory and media scrutiny since 2016, when a massive fake account scandal came to light.

Williams also has come under criticism because the fake accounts scandal at San Francisco - based Wells Fargo happened on his watch.

The bank already has paid a $ 100 million CFPB penalty to settle the fake accounts issue, in which employees opened some 3.5 million accounts for customers without their knowledge.

Banks need to stop rewarding the kind of bad behavior that led to the Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal and other banking misdeeds, New York Fed President William Dudley said Monday.

The bank, which has labored under a fake accounts scandal and other black eyes since September 2016, is being targeted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Reuters reported, citing sources.

And as we've shared before, our teams have found and shut down thousands of fake accounts that could be attempting to influence elections in many countries, including recently in the French elections.

The first executive decision Sloan made when he took charge in October 2016, was to get rid of the sales incentive plan that led to millions of fake accounts.

On the elections front, Zuckerberg highlighted efforts to identify misinformation and remove «tens of thousands» of fake accounts sharing content related to elections in France and Germany, as well as a special Senate election in the United States.

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

The hackers took money from banks in Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and the U.S and transferred it to fake accounts in other countries, reports The New York Times.

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.

The troll farm also had its own «Facebook desk,» whose function was to relentlessly push back against the platform's administrators who deleted fake accounts as they began gaining traction.

Although Stamos did not identify any specific ads posted by the fake accounts, he did say this:

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customers.

In one of the instructional videos, Huffman reveals that many of Reddit's «users» in the early months were actually fake accounts, created by the founders.

Zuckerberg also said he would report back to lawmakers on other issues including protecting minors online, finding ways to regulate fake accounts, and bringing broadband to rural areas.

The nation's third - largest bank has struggled to recover from a 2016 fake accounts scandal.

They want the court to demand Facebook remove similar — not only identical — postings, and to make it identify holders of fake accounts.

The CEO is either put in a position to publicly apologize, which customers may interpret as forced and insincere (as we saw on Wednesday with United's Munoz and last month with Uber's Travis Kalanick following harassment claims) or the CEO is forced to resign, as Wells Fargo's John Stumpf did last October following its fake accounts scandal.

Branch employees had opened millions of fake accounts in customers» names without their knowledge to meet sales targets.

These people work to detect fake accounts, improve authentication, reduce harassment and scams and promote child safety, among other tasks related to safety.

This would mark the latest headache for the bank, which is still recovering from a 2016 fake accounts scandal and paid a $ 1 billion fine over misconduct in its mortgage lending and auto businesses last week.

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.