The comments below, from someone impersonating a public verified page, will appear below every post you post on Facebook.
No kidding, this has been going on for at least three full years, maybe longer.
I have always reported accounts, reported comments, blocked the user who posted it and the fake pages they created, but sending these reports is not going at all… thin air. No response from Facebook. It doesn’t try to stop many of them from sprouting. No effort, no action. So I see the same comment from the same impersonating poster an hour or a week after him on the next post I post. It also scams people with some fake offer of cryptocurrency (of course it’s crypto. not everyone involved in crypto is a thief, but all thieves are involved in crypto ).
Post, post, post, fake comment, fake comment, fake comment, block, block, block, you can set the clock. If I block the user and report the comment multiple times, nothing happens. I also reported and blocked others, including followers, fans, and colleagues. Not for nothing. Until my last post, it never stopped.
What’s crazy is that these comments automatically appear within a second of being posted under my work. That’s how you know there is a software program that does this. This means that the platform must be able to shut down en masse via an API accessible to bot farms. But they don’t. Either it benefits them in some way or they don’t care.
Think how easy it would be to black label all comments containing ‘BTC’ to auto-delete the scam while having authors and verified authors approve comments that were erroneously gatekeepers . They wrote the program he wrote in a day and were able to stop all these scams and honeypots completely.
This process of reporting and blocking has been repeated dozens of times by me (and others visiting my page). wastefully. Because Facebook’s engagement stats are themselves a scam and their “safety” initiative is a smoke screen.
In reality, Meta reports bots and fake account activity as if they are active users to lure advertisers and pull Wall Street numbers. And they talk about safety just to silence European critics. That way, you can rake in your advertising dollars and keep running as you please. Mark Zuckerbot puts safety above his score in Indian Premier League cricket today.
And it’s okay, I’m not mad about it, I just don’t want to participate anymore. I won’t go back until I have reason to believe the creators and their fans are protected.
I don’t know how many stupid people have been involved over the years with this comment from my page and others. We don’t know how many dollars were transferred or stolen by the dirtbag person or entity behind them. I can’t even guess the number. But even $1 is too much. Facebook could and should have disabled such scams years ago. For some reason, it doesn’t.
So I’m out I can’t stand to contribute any more.
Honestly, I’m not a Facebook user, so it was an easy decision. Everything I post there goes through my social media manager, Buffer.The only reason to actually visit Facebook.com Every time meta changes their API either block crypto scams from my comments or try to reconnect the buffer account. my friends don’t post there. I will not post there. It doesn’t matter what happens there. I certainly don’t rely on it for news. I don’t want (or think about) connecting with people from the past. And I hate wishing random acquaintances a happy birthday.
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