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Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. Wallace, 43, allegedly used a ...

Facebook is using the Status feature of WhatsApp for spamming users with privacy stories following the recent backlash for the planned privacy policy change. The new Status stories were featured ...

Facebook on Tuesday was marking legitimate coronavirus news as spam for some users, multiple media reports said. Several news outlets reported that people have been getting a notification that they ...

In recent years, Meta started paying creators on Facebook. The payouts have incentivized a wave of spam and inauthentic behavior as creators try to cash in. There's a thriving trade in Facebook ...

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(CN) - A now-defunct social media aggregator didn't break the law when it solicited Facebook login information from users, the Ninth Circuit ruled, but it did when it continued to after getting a ...

So-called “Spam King” Sanford Wallace has admitted to using around a half-million Facebook accounts to send more than 27 million unsolicited messages on the social network, Bloomberg reports. Wallace ...

Our friend the Spam King has turned himself into the FBI a couple years after he was ordered to pay $711 million for spamming the shit out of Facebook. Will Facebook finally get some money out of ...