Facebooks Crypto Project Offered After Political Backlash
Zuckerberg has said that he regrets having dismissed considerations over Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Campaigns operated by the British intelligence company unit, called Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts. The propaganda efforts utilize "mass messaging" and the "pushing stories" via social media websites like Facebook. Israel's Jewish Internet Defense Force, China's 50 Cent Party and Turkey's AK Trolls also focus their attention on social media platforms like Facebook. Ars Technica reported in April 2018 that the Facebook Android app had been harvesting person data, together with phone calls and text messages, since 2015. In May 2018, several Android customers filed a class motion lawsuit against Facebook for invading their privateness. "Android users file lawsuit in opposition to Facebook for invasion of privacy". "Mark...