[anti-abuse-wg] Hijacking and Blocking of Business Users Profiles on Meta Platforms

On 17/02/2023 13:32, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:

Sure.

From: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/anti-abuse

"While areas such as hosting illegal content or copyright infringement 
are not seen as a central part of the working group's remit, they are 
unquestionably bound up in other aspects of network abuse and, as such, 
may be areas of interest."

Regards,
Hank


> Hank
> 
> I’m a little confused.
> 
> This is the RIPE anti-abuse WG.
> 
> I don’t see how this issue is related to this group.
> 
> Could you please explain?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Michele
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> Mr Michele Neylon
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> *From: *anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Hank 
> Nussbacher <hank at interall.co.il>
> *Date: *Friday, 17 February 2023 at 09:23
> *To: *anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net>
> *Subject: *[anti-abuse-wg] Hijacking and Blocking of Business Users 
> Profiles on Meta Platforms
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> Hijacking and Blocking of Business Users Profiles on Meta Platforms
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> https://en.isoc.org.il/netica/hijacking-and-blocking-of-business-users-profiles-on-meta-platforms <https://en.isoc.org.il/netica/hijacking-and-blocking-of-business-users-profiles-on-meta-platforms>
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> ISOC-IL wishes to raise the issue that Meta is not taking sufficient 
> actions to curtail hijacking of business profiles.  In the attached 
> paper ISOC-IL shows countless examples (actually 170 cases in the past 
> year) of targeted attacks that are designed to block and hijack specific 
> business accounts.  These customers are paying customers yet due to 
> Facebook's automatic blocking of planted pedophilia or terrorist videos, 
> these customers have no recourse to even open a complaint with Meta.  
> Paying customers should not have to threaten legal action for the issue 
> to be dealt with.
> 
> Meta must develop tools that can distinguish between systematic, 
> deliberate publication of offensive and destructive content, and the 
> publication of damaging content on hijacked, innocent profiles for the 
> purpose of blocking those profiles.  Meta needs to establish customer 
> service that responds to business account owners wronged by hacking and 
> fraud.
> 
> Regards,
> Hank
>