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Slightly related but there is a fake profile of me on Facebook I have been trying to get taken down for months now. It copied my profile picture and added sever

Slightly related but there is a fake profile of me on Facebook I have been trying to get taken down for months now. It copied my profile picture and added several of my mutual friends. Facebook just keeps saying the profile doesn't violate their guidelines even though my last name is very unique and the profile picture makes it blatantly obvious.

Brybry 4y ago
I wonder if you DMCA/copyright strike the fake profile for using your picture if that would be more effective.
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hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
A young (attractive) man was murdered in my country with a case dragged out over a period of years, there was a fake but active profile using his highly published images under a different name. Facebook banned me for continuously reporting the profile, in every report I linked multiple articles containing the relevant images. I would suggest you encourage a large volume of contacts to report the profile. Funny that you have to game the system to achieve a perfectly legitimate result.
- derefr 4y ago
  I feel like the workflow that happens when you click "flag" in social networks has become ossified according to " Content Guidelines" in the same way that Level-1 CSR scripts are ossified. To actually get one-off (rather than rule-based) evaluation of a problem, you need your report to not come in from that direction, but from some other side-channel, e.g. a viral tweet complaining about the problem.
  - Firmwarrior 4y ago
    Man, I wish we could convince people to just stop using these **** "platforms" and go back to cheap selfhosted forums/blogs Of course a giant faceless low-margin corporation is going to do a bad job of moderation. I wish it weren't such a big deal when they fail at it
    - ferrocarraiges 4y ago
      Too ambitious. Platforms like MySpace or GeoCities would be closer to the mark, if we could find a way to incentivize a hand-off approach to data collection. Site builders like SquareSpace, Wix, and WordPress are also close, but they're mostly designed and marketed as professional tools rather than personal spaces. Most people don't ever want to hear words like "DNS record" or "PHP version", but they do want to express themselves, and they can figure out a markdown or markup language in pursuit of that.
    - JKCalhoun 4y ago
      Or go back to, I don't know, cruising down Main Street, spending time at their local library, walking downtown....
    - tsimionescu 4y ago
      Honestly, taking down a fake blog using your name or pictures would probably be much harder than taking down a FB/LinkedIn etc profile, wouldn't it?
    - ericmay 4y ago
      > cheap selfhosted forums/blogs Tbh I think most people just don't need to even be posting on a blog, myself included. It's nice to think you have something important to say but we mostly don't. How did our self-worth get tied up in this mess? Of course if you want to start a blog you should. Maybe you do have something interesting, thoughtful, or worthwhile to say. Maybe you just want to keep a diary of sorts or post for a few friends or family members. But moving from social media platforms to self-hosted blogs misses the key step that most people just need to get the hell of the Internet instead of starting a blog or posting on social media.
- dylan604 4y ago
  >Funny that you have to game the system to achieve a perfectly legitimate result. How does the automated bot know the perfectly legitimate to the wholly being scammed?
  - hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
    It doesn’t, most evidence suggests many users reporting of otherwise legitimate content results in bots deeming the victim against TOS. Malicious groups blackmail prominent YouTubers using this mechanism, and YouTube appears to do nothing. May as well leverage the weakness for good when we can.
- smt88 4y ago
  I would wager a DMCA takedown would work better in these situations.
bee_rider 4y ago
Yeah, fake profiles were one of the things that made me just start completely ignoring friend requests on Facebook. Although I'm one of those grumpy, uninterested/uninteresting people who is just on the site to stay in touch with their parents and grandparents, so it isn't like I'm in the demographic they are trying to grow anyway.
- pedro2 4y ago
  All bots in IG and FB are pretty easily identifiable from photos (semi-naked woman)
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Submit a DMCA notice for copyright infringement. If that doesn't work sue FB in small claims for the maximum your state allows.

Brybry 4y ago

I wonder if you DMCA/copyright strike the fake profile for using your picture if that would be more effective.

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hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago

A young (attractive) man was murdered in my country with a case dragged out over a period of years, there was a fake but active profile using his highly published images under a different name. Facebook banned me for continuously reporting the profile, in every report I linked multiple articles containing the relevant images. I would suggest you encourage a large volume of contacts to report the profile. Funny that you have to game the system to achieve a perfectly legitimate result.

derefr 4y ago
I feel like the workflow that happens when you click "flag" in social networks has become ossified according to " Content Guidelines" in the same way that Level-1 CSR scripts are ossified. To actually get one-off (rather than rule-based) evaluation of a problem, you need your report to not come in from that direction, but from some other side-channel, e.g. a viral tweet complaining about the problem.
- Firmwarrior 4y ago
  Man, I wish we could convince people to just stop using these **** "platforms" and go back to cheap selfhosted forums/blogs Of course a giant faceless low-margin corporation is going to do a bad job of moderation. I wish it weren't such a big deal when they fail at it
  - ferrocarraiges 4y ago
    Too ambitious. Platforms like MySpace or GeoCities would be closer to the mark, if we could find a way to incentivize a hand-off approach to data collection. Site builders like SquareSpace, Wix, and WordPress are also close, but they're mostly designed and marketed as professional tools rather than personal spaces. Most people don't ever want to hear words like "DNS record" or "PHP version", but they do want to express themselves, and they can figure out a markdown or markup language in pursuit of that.
  - JKCalhoun 4y ago
    Or go back to, I don't know, cruising down Main Street, spending time at their local library, walking downtown....
  - tsimionescu 4y ago
    Honestly, taking down a fake blog using your name or pictures would probably be much harder than taking down a FB/LinkedIn etc profile, wouldn't it?
  - ericmay 4y ago
    > cheap selfhosted forums/blogs Tbh I think most people just don't need to even be posting on a blog, myself included. It's nice to think you have something important to say but we mostly don't. How did our self-worth get tied up in this mess? Of course if you want to start a blog you should. Maybe you do have something interesting, thoughtful, or worthwhile to say. Maybe you just want to keep a diary of sorts or post for a few friends or family members. But moving from social media platforms to self-hosted blogs misses the key step that most people just need to get the hell of the Internet instead of starting a blog or posting on social media.
dylan604 4y ago
>Funny that you have to game the system to achieve a perfectly legitimate result. How does the automated bot know the perfectly legitimate to the wholly being scammed?
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
  It doesn’t, most evidence suggests many users reporting of otherwise legitimate content results in bots deeming the victim against TOS. Malicious groups blackmail prominent YouTubers using this mechanism, and YouTube appears to do nothing. May as well leverage the weakness for good when we can.
smt88 4y ago
I would wager a DMCA takedown would work better in these situations.

bee_rider 4y ago

Yeah, fake profiles were one of the things that made me just start completely ignoring friend requests on Facebook. Although I'm one of those grumpy, uninterested/uninteresting people who is just on the site to stay in touch with their parents and grandparents, so it isn't like I'm in the demographic they are trying to grow anyway.

pedro2 4y ago
All bots in IG and FB are pretty easily identifiable from photos (semi-naked woman)

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

Submit a DMCA notice for copyright infringement. If that doesn't work sue FB in small claims for the maximum your state allows.