Used gaming to rip-off kids & Parents
From iGeek
Facebook encouraged game developers to let children spend money without their parents’ permission.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-01-25 |
This was allll according to unsealed court documents that are part of a class action lawsuit focused on how Facebook conducts business. Ouch!
The more than 135 pages of unsealed documents, which include internal Facebook memos, secret strategies and employee emails, paint a troubling picture of how the social media giant treats customers.
- For years, it allowed for what it called “friendly fraud” because it feared implementing protections would harm revenue:
- One employee asks if they should process the ($6545) refund but are advised not to do so. “Agreed. Just double checking,” the first employee replies.
- (a FB risk analyst) said it would “make sense to start refunding for blatant Family Fraud-minor.” … Facebook decided that it would harm revenue and elected to continue fighting refund requests for the foreseeable future.
- … around 93 percent “of the refunds are being made due to friendly fraud refund requests.”
What’s telling is the FB response to the press about these released records. They decline to claim they did anything wrong, have no plans to change policies, and point out that they’re not doing anything illegal.
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🔗 Links
- https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/
- https://gizmodo.com/facebook-let-kids-rack-up-charges-on-parents-credit-car-1832053733
- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5694580-Exhibit-K.html#document/p2/a477366
Tags: Facebook
