Re:Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:50AM
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Facebook's real name policy is a complete failure. And professional PR, "influencing", and astroturfing are endemic, especially on political groups.
It seems to be trivial for bad actors to hack/farm unused accounts and impersonate people almost at will. Meanwhile nation state-level and/or corporate bad actors have the resources to bypass or subvert the id validation and create fake identities and accounts at industrial scale.
I don't think real ID is a solution. Not even if it's linked to some kind of robust physical key - which is obviously going to have privacy implications anyway.
AI or automated searching for troll-like activity, most likely followed by manual oversight, is more likely to be successful.
But there's the lingering question of whether FB is really interested in pursuing this with any effectiveness or enthusiasm. Given FB's resources and its lack of success to date, the answer seems to be "no."
It seems to be trivial for bad actors to hack/farm unused accounts and impersonate people almost at will. Meanwhile nation state-level and/or corporate bad actors have the resources to bypass or subvert the id validation and create fake identities and accounts at industrial scale.
I don't think real ID is a solution. Not even if it's linked to some kind of robust physical key - which is obviously going to have privacy implications anyway.
AI or automated searching for troll-like activity, most likely followed by manual oversight, is more likely to be successful.
But there's the lingering question of whether FB is really interested in pursuing this with any effectiveness or enthusiasm. Given FB's resources and its lack of success to date, the answer seems to be "no."