Facebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:35 pm
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he Center for Investigative Reporting's report was based on newly unsealed documents from a class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook in 2012 in US District Court for the Northern District of California. The case was settled in 2016 and required Facebook to make changes to its refund practices and policies for minors.
The Center for Investigative Reporting filed a motion to unseal documents from the case in September 2018, and that motion was partially granted this month.
The court documents included "internal Facebook memos, secret strategies, and employee emails," the Center for Investigative Reporting noted.
The documents show that "Facebook orchestrated a multiyear effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and then often refused to give the money back," the group's report said. In some cases, children did not know that they were spending real money because they didn't realize their parents' credit cards were connected to their Facebook accounts, the report said.
"For years, the company ignored warnings from its own employees that it was bamboozling children," the report said.