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Meta’s move comes as the company has faced increasing pressure from regulators in Washington that the company intentionally neglected to address disinformation on the site.
facebook just notified thousands of users they were hacked. who are these hackers? a number of groups that meta the parent company of facebook and citizen lab the university of toronto call cyber mercenaries. they notified 50,000 people they had been targeting in more than a hundred countries by seven different firms and organizations essentially spies for hire that offer a whole range of spying techniques. there are a number of companies from israel one called black cube which was used infaumously by harvey weinstein and these groups often say their tools are used against criminals and terrorists but what this report says is that they were used indiscriminately against rights activists and opponents of authoritarian regimes and this does echo another company that got into some trouble nso group another israeli company that the biden administration has accused of their technology targeting