Sentences with phrase «using fake accounts»

Russia is using fake accounts on social media — many of them bots — to spread disinformation, the officials said.

This 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.

«This 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,» he said.

The move is designed to prevent users who run pages using fake accounts from hiding their true identity.

«This 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,» wrote Zuckerberg.

Verification of those page operators «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,» he said.

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.

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.

12:37 pm ET: Rep. Adam Kinzinger just held up his phone to show Zuckerberg that someone was using a fake account with his photo and a similar name.

The internet is in a tizzy over the idea that Kevin Durant uses fake accounts to defend himself on Twitter, but that story is nothing compared to his private Instagram account that was unearthed in the wake of the Twitter conspiracy.

Sorry guys, it was tweeted using a fake account using «David Ornstein's» name.

BlackPeopleMeet also sends a verification email to every new user, so if a scammer is using a fake account, they're more likely to get caught.

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.»

This will make it much harder for people to administer a Page using a fake account, which is strictly against our policies.

«This will make it much harder for people to administer a page using a fake account, which is strictly against our policies,» Goldman and Himel said.

And it's requiring verification for all pages that have large numbers of followers, making it «much harder for people to administer a Page using a fake account, which is strictly against our policies.»

«This will make it much harder for people to administer a Page using a fake account, which is strictly against our policies,» Facebook points out.

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,» Zuckerberg said in the announcement, posted to Facebook.

Facebook reported that «malicious actors» used fake accounts during the campaign to promote links to stolen information.

Accepting that these steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system, the Facebook CEO said it will, however, 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».

Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the steps alone «won't stop all people trying to game the system, 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».

Not exact matches

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 while our primary focus was on traditional threats, we also saw some new behavior in the summer of 2016 when APT28 - related accounts, under the banner of DC Leaks, created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists.

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.

Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that used in the 2013 Target breach), it's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.

According to the Senate committee report, Ding, Gao, and Deguito ginned up the accounts using fake names, fake addresses, and fake declarations that Deguito had met the account holders in person and confirmed their identities.

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.

Critics blamed Facebook for the spread of misinformation during the election, and Russian agents also used fake social media accounts to share divisive content in the U.S.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

After filing the fake tax return, identity thieves are using taxpayers» actual bank account information to have the refund deposited — then, they call to collect.

She reportedly told her family she was going to a sleepover at a friend's house, used a fake bank account to buy a plane ticket to Istanbul, then travelled via land to ISIS - controlled Syria.

The groups also bought fake U.S. driver's license numbers and other common identification documents that they used to «maintain their accounts at PayPal and elsewhere, including online cryptocurrency exchanges.»

This number represents fake accounts of all varieties, the most common being those that are used for financially - motivated spam.

One Uber worker reportedly created 14 fake accounts and used them to book and cancel a whopping 1,524 rides.

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.

Facebook has bought Confirm, a Boston - based government ID verification service, which Facebook will most likely use to confirm the identities of suspicious accounts in its fight against fake accounts used to spread political propaganda.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Stolen and forged identities used to create fake accounts is, in turn, becoming a market unto itself.

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

2 The mules receive the fraudulent funds in their personal accounts and are then directed by the subject to quickly transfer the funds using wire transfer services or another bank account, usually outside the U.S.. Upon direction, mules may sometimes open business accounts for fake corporations both of which may be incorporated in the true name of the mule.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

With so many fake account statements being used today on the Internet, using a service like Binary Verify and the Binary Verify verification seal is a new method to prove that a binary options trading account is real.

He had rented servers in Netherlands, used a group of IP addresses throughout Germany, and even opened multiple bank accounts under fake IDs to channel his profits through.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

Feb 8 Twitter Inc on Thursday reported its first quarterly net profit and topped Wall Street targets as video ad sales rose, but the number of people using the social network fell short of expectations as Twitter shut down fake accounts.

Rather, they typically steal existing coins from unsuspecting owners using mobile malware that creates the same effect as webinjections: Cybercriminals trick users with fake on - screen information, steal their access credentials and take over accounts to empty coins into their own wallets.

The fake Jessica followed or retweeted accounts using Arabic and Indonesian, languages the real Jessica does not speak.

By the time she stopped using it regularly in 2014, a fake account copying her personal information had been created.

By incorporating users» social media accounts and allowing only those who have used the product or service to leave a review, you reduce the probability of users creating fake reviews to boost their reputation.