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The West Shore RCMP is warning the public after receiving numerous reports of fraud on Facebook Marketplace. According to police, the fraud consists of a seller listing an item for sale and requesting the buyer e-transfer a deposit to hold the item for sale. However, when the buyer tries to collect the item, they find out that the item does not exist. "We wish to warn the public of this type of fraud. There is always a risk to buying items online especially from sellers you don’t know," said Cpl. Nancy Saggar, West Shore RCMP Media Relations Officer. Here are some tips to keep in mind if you are purchasing items online from Facebook Marketplace and other online platforms: Check the seller reviews; Pay for the item in person and inspect what you are buying; Pay in cash and avoid e-transfer ahead of time; Do not pay a holding deposit fee; Meet the seller in a public place.  » Read More

A man from Glens Falls has had his Facebook page hijacked and completely taken over. Whoever did it is using the page to sell phony items in his name.It happened to Ray Agnew, a vice president of Glens Falls Hospital.He gave his Facebook access code to a person he thought was a friend who had been locked out of their account.It turns out he was being scammed, and the scammer immediately took over his page and started posting items for sale – items that don’t exist. They were still posting items as of Friday, and people are sending them money, thinking that it’s Agnew who is selling them.13Investigates reached out to Facebook on Agnew’s behalf.Learn about how we made out and how a Glens Falls church plays into this story, on our late news after the football game on Sunday night, and on WNYT.com.  » Read More

The logo of Meta Platforms' business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOSLO/BRUSSELS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Norway's data regulator will refer the ongoing fine it has imposed on Meta Platforms (META.O) to the European data authority (EDA), it said on Thursday, a move that could make the penalty permanent and widen it to the European Union.The EU's regulator confirmed to Reuters it had received the request to expand the fine. It said it would first make an assessment of the file after which it "will have two weeks to adopt its urgent binding decision".The owner of Facebook and Instagram has been fined one million crowns ($93,000) per day since Aug. 14 for three months for breaching users' privacy by harvesting their data and using it to target advertising at them, a business model common to Big Tech.That is the maximum period for which the Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet is allowed to impose such a penalty.  » Read More

ALBANY — In 2019, Jacob L. Klein messaged ex-girlfriend Elana Radin on Facebook saying he wanted to “get back at you for cheating on me.”.  » Read More

Today during Connect, we introduced new AI experiences across our family of apps and devices, including testing 28 AIs with unique interests and personalities for you to interact with and dive deeper into your interests. While we’re rolling out the ability for you to interact directly with these AIs via our messaging platforms, we’re also launching their social profiles on Facebook and Instagram today so you can follow them and get to know what they’re all about. Many of these profile pictures look familiar because we partnered with well known public figures to embody some of these AIs – but these familiar faces are representing the characters, not themselves. The public-facing social profiles and related visual content creation is managed by Meta. When we generate images for social posts using AI, you’ll see #ImaginedWithAI on the post along with a watermark on the lower left hand corner of the image. If you are part of the beta product rollout in the U.S., you’ll be able to interact with the AIs directly from their social profiles by sending them a message on Instagram or Messenger.  » Read More

Washington – News publishers are escalating their push for a bill in Congress that would force big tech companies to compensate local news organizations for content posted on platforms like Google and Facebook.More than 80 news publishers and their representatives plan to visit members of Congress at their Capitol Hill offices today as part of a lobbying blitz for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.The bill would give news organizations a temporary anti-trust exemption to negotiate with digital platforms and come up with fair compensation for content produced by their journalists.The legislation could provide a financial boost to struggling local news organizations, which compete with the technology firms for digital advertising revenue.The tech platforms take as much as 70% of the digital ad revenue generated in the United States, according to the News Media Alliance, a trade group of about 2,000 news organizations.The shrinking revenue for local news publishers has contributed to the closing of about 2,500 local newspapers since 2005, or about a quarter of the nation’s newspapers according to a Northwestern University study.  » Read More

Sign In: Street Talk Posted 2:50 PM Updated 36 mins ago increase font size Street Talk: When news of the latest vandalism spree started to get around, the furor landed in its usual place: on social media. At first it seemed like just another “here we go again” scenario.  The Longley School, a perennial target of vandals and jackanapes, had been trashed one more time.  Desks overturned and thrown about. Bathrooms destroyed in ways that only rampaging youths can manage. School equipment damaged or destroyed, hallways trashed, serving areas hit as though by a tornado.  Nobody needs me to describe the damage in any great detail. We’ve all been here before. Longley was targeted by a similar band of young vandals just a year earlier, after all, and that particular mess stayed in the news cycle a long while.  When news of the latest vandalism spree started to get around, the furor landed in its usual place: on social media,  » Read More

Tom Sykes Posted On 26/09/2023 Meta has announced that it is expanding its Meta Verified subscription to business accounts “soon,” which will allow Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts representing businesses to pay to show a verification badge on their profile.According to Meta, Meta Verified for businesses is currently in testing, and will soon be available to businesses on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp for $21.99 USD/month per Facebook page or Instagram account, or $34.99 USD/month for both.In a message to The Apple Post, a Meta spokesperson said “We’ll start with a test in the coming weeks for businesses on Instagram and Facebook in select countries – and will expand to businesses on WhatsApp in the future.”Earlier this year, we introduced Meta Verified for creators, a subscription bundle that allows users to pay to show a blue verification badge on their Facebook or Instagram profile.According to the platform, in addition to showing blue verification badges on profiles,  » Read More

For posting her “honest review” of the Nagiko Tomato Mix, a product of Erisco Foods Limited, the police have arrested Chioma Egodi Jnr., a popular Facebook user. On September 17, Egodi Jnr. had made a post on her Facebook page, highlighting the high sugar content in the tomato paste and inviting her followers who might have used the same product to share their opinions. “I went to buy tin tomatoes yesterday that I will use to make stew. I didn’t see Gino and Sonia, so I decided to buy this one (Nagiko). When I opened it omo! I decided to taste it. Sugar is just too much. Haa biko (please) let me know if you have used this tin tomato before because this is an ike gwuru (tiring) situation,” Egodi Jnr. had posted on Facebook. READ ALSO: For Criticising Apostle Suleiman’s Miracle Money, Israel Balogun is in the Police Soup Two days later, Egodi Jnr. insinuated in another Facebook post that a group of people had privately bombarded her with accusations of attempting to harm their brother’s business.  » Read More

"Human, please! Share your experiences, thoughts, and emotions!"Lonely IslandMeta-formerly-Facebook, the Mark Zuckerberg-helmed social media company that continues to shout from the rooftops that its platforms are designed to "help people connect" and "bring people closer together," is marching forward with an eyebrow-raising solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots that users can talk to instead of their fellow humans.According to new reporting from The Wall Street Journal, which obtained internal documents about the bots — which reportedly feature distinct personalities ranging from "sassy" robot to misogynistic douchebag — are specifically geared toward capturing the attention of Meta's younger crowd. Facebook has been struggling to keep up with the likes of TikTok, the favored app of Gez Z, and according to the documents reviewed by the WSJ, these AI-powered correspondents are a ploy to reclaim some of that lucrative youth attention.Fellow KidsThe concepts for the AI characters seem a bit all over the place.  » Read More