The under remark, which comes from somebody impersonating my public-facing verified web page, seems under each single put up I put up at Fb:

I child you not, this has been occurring for at the very least three full years, perhaps longer.

I at all times reported the account, reported the remark and blocked the consumer who positioned it – and the pretend web page they’d created – however my submission of those reviews would go completely nowhere. Into skinny air. No response from Fb. No try and cease extra of them from sprouting up. No effort in anyway and no motion. So the very subsequent put up I’d put up, one hour later or one week later, an similar remark from an similar impersonator would seem. Additionally scamming individuals with some kind of pretend supply for crypto forex (in fact it’s crypto. Not everybody who’s concerned in crypto is a thief, however each thief is concerned in crypto).

You can set your watch by it – put up, put up, put up, pretend remark, pretend remark, pretend remark, block, block, block. I’d block the consumer and report the remark time and again and nothing would occur. Different individuals – followers, followers, my coworkers – would report and block them too. For nothing. It by no means stopped, up til and together with my final put up.

And what’s loopy is that these feedback seem under my work mechanically, inside a second of its posting. That’s how there’s a software program program doing this. Which suggests they’re doing lots of it, which implies the platform ought to have the ability to shut it down, en masse, by way of no matter API this bot farm has entry by. However they gained’t. As a result of it’s both benefiting them in a roundabout way or they don’t give a shit.

Take into consideration how simple it will be to black label all feedback with “BTC” in them and let the authors and verified creators approve the wrongly gatekept ones whereas auto-deleting the scams. They may write that program in sooner or later and cease all of those frauds and honeypots chilly.

This technique of report-n-block has been repeated by me (and others visiting my web page) dozens and dozens of instances. To no avail. As a result of Fb’s engagement stats are themselves a rip-off and their “security” initiatives are a smoke display screen.

The truth is that Meta reviews the exercise of bots and faux accounts as if they’re lively customers to glamour their advertisers and juice the numbers for Wall Avenue. They usually speak about security simply to close their European critics the f*** up to allow them to proceed to rake in advert {dollars} and function as they please. The Mark Zuckerbot cares much less about security than you care about immediately’s cricket scores for the Indian Premier League.

And It’s okay, I’m not mad about it, I simply don’t wish to take part anymore. So I deactivated my public-facing Fb web page and I can’t return till I’ve purpose to imagine that creators and their followers are being protected.

I do not know what number of silly individuals have engaged with this remark from my web page and others over time. I couldn’t let you know what number of {dollars} have been wired to or stolen by no matter dirtbag particular person or entity is behind it. I can’t even guess at a quantity. But when it’s even one greenback, it’s one too many. Fb may have and will have disabled scams like these years in the past. For some purpose, they haven’t.

So I’m out. I can’t stand by and contribute to this anymore.

And, to be sincere, it’s a simple determination for me as a result of I’m not a Fb consumer anyway. All the things I’ve posted there has gone by Buffer, our social media supervisor. The one purpose to ever go to precise Fb.com is to attempt to block crypto scams from my feedback or reconnect the Buffer account every time Meta makes an API change. My associates don’t put up there. I don’t put up there. I don’t care about something that goes on there. I actually don’t depend on it for information. I don’t wish to join with (or take into consideration) individuals from the previous. I’m not nostalgic for any of it. And I hate wishing random acquaintances a contented birthday. So what on earth would I be doing there?

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