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New Scam On The App Store Denies Advertisers Access To Their Facebook Marketing Accounts / Digital Information World

A new scam has been highlighted by security researchers, which was recently found on the Apple App Store. The malicious campaign targets advertisers trying to gain access to their marketing accounts across the Facebook platform. At first glance, the app seems relatively innocent and harmless but that’s far from the reality. It features an image of an iPhone screen that entails all the apps owned by Meta. Hence, you’ll find logos belonging to Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram too. Analysts say that all you need to do […]

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We research misinformation on Facebook. It just disabled our accounts, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

By Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy We learned last week that Facebook had disabled our Facebook accounts and our access to data that we have been using to study how misinformation spreads on the company’s platform. We were informed of this in an automated email. In a statement, Facebook says we used “unauthorized means to access and collect data” and that it shut us out to comply with an order from the Federal Trade Commission to respect the privacy of its users. This is deeply misleading. We collect […]

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