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86-year-old Canadian woman lost $900,000 in AI crypto scam discovered on Facebook; friends say she almost took her own life

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86-year-old Canadian woman lost $900,000 in AI crypto scam discovered on Facebook; friends say she almost took her own life

Judy Skene lost $900,000 in fake cryptocurrency platform scam An 86-year-old Ontario woman lost more than $900,000 after falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam that used a deepfake video of Prime Minister Mark Carney to lure investors online.Judy Skene, Sault Ste. Marie. Marie said she first discovered the fraudulent scheme while browsing the web in … Read more

Facebook, topicality drops across the U.S.; users say ‘nothing is loading’ during widespread outage

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Facebook and Threads experienced widespread outages across the United States on Tuesday night, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing the apps and websites. Many users reported that feeds, posts, and other content failed to load. On Tuesday, Facebook appeared to be down around the world. (no splash) According to DownDetector, reports of the outage … Read more

Facebook privacy settlement: Second payment to be made in June; check eligibility, amounts, key dates

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Some Facebook users will receive a second round of payments under a $725 million privacy class-action settlement involving Facebook parent company Meta. The case involves allegations that Facebook shared users’ private data with it Thousands Third parties such as advertisers and data brokers Facebook Privacy Settlement (Unsplash/Image used for representational purposes.) (Unsplash) Facebook data privacy … Read more