Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg's Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist
A Thursday evening software update at Facebook accidentally allowed anyone to view exactly who is posting under the accounts of public figures, businesses and other entities, according to Wired. The result? For starters, some 3 million followers of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg have been reading posts written by her father, Svante Thunberg, and a climate activist in India who serves as a delegate at the UN's Climate Change organization, Adarsh Prathap. Thunberg, Inc. claims Greta is still the one writing the content.
Greta, Inc. explained this in a Saturday Facebook post purporting to be the young climate activist. "Some people have been asking who manages this page. First of all, since last spring I only use Facebook to repost what I write on my Twitter and Instagram accounts," reads the post, in which 'she' says she tried Facebook "early on," but didn't like it, so she uses "my father Svantes account to repost content." "The rest that is shared on Facebook is reposted from Twitter and Instagram by the guy who founded the Greta Thunberg Facebook page long before I knew it existed. His name is Adarsh Prathap and he lives in India. Since a lot of people thought it was my official page in the beginning I asked if I could co-manage it and he said yes." Greta claims to have written all the content posted by her father and Prathap. In other words, "of course it's not me silly - you should have known I just 'co-manage' the fan page."
Except - by all outward appearances it appeared to be her page alone. Facebook's 'page transparency' shows Greta as the confirmed owner - with the only clue suggesting she might have help being a page manager located in India.
According to Facebook, the flaw was quickly fixed - but not before the people behind famous accounts were revealed and shared on public forums such as 4chan. "We quickly fixed an issue where someone could see who edited or published a post on behalf of a Page when looking at its edit history," said the company in a statement. "We are grateful to the security researcher who alerted us to this issue."
Facebook says the bug was the result of a code update that it pushed Thursday evening. It's not something most people would have encountered on their own, since it took navigating to a Page, viewing an edit history, and realizing that there shouldn't be a name and profile picture assigned to edits to exploit it. Still, despite the Friday morning fix, screenshots circulated on 4chan, Imgur, and social media appearing to show the accounts behind the official Facebook Pages of the pseudonymous artist Banksy, Russian president Vladimir Putin, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, the hacking collective Anonymous, climate activist Greta Thunberg, and rapper Snoop Dogg, among others. Facebook points out that no information beyond a name and public profile link were available, but that information isn't supposed to appear in the edit history at all. And for people, say, running anti-regime Pages under a repressive government, making even that much information public is plenty alarming. -Wired
I think Randy posted something similar... but if you look throughout history, the Democrats, and quite frankly... socialists, always seem to gravitate towards kids that express their views. Kids are dumb... they just are. They have less knowledge, less experience, make decisions without thinking, and generally base everything on emotion because they don't have solid footing. But Democrats seem to act like when a child says something, that it becomes gospel. I don't know if maybe they're trying to portray the idea that... "See, even a child knows what's right..." or whatever their angle is... but it's ridiculous.
They've literally taken an extremely socially awkward girl, and exploited her.
Yes, it was posted a couple days ago in the Greta thread. All the left and weirdos latched on to her tale because they figured no one would "have the audacity" to contradict a 'minor'.
I realize she is young yet, but in regards to her, her parents, and those that are all gaa gaa about her.......
I think Randy posted something similar... but if you look throughout history, the Democrats, and quite frankly... socialists, always seem to gravitate towards kids that express their views. Kids are dumb... they just are. They have less knowledge, less experience, make decisions without thinking, and generally base everything on emotion because they don't have solid footing. But Democrats seem to act like when a child says something, that it becomes gospel. I don't know if maybe they're trying to portray the idea that... "See, even a child knows what's right..." or whatever their angle is... but it's ridiculous.
They've literally taken an extremely socially awkward girl, and exploited her.
Expoliting children is apparently easier for them than talking adult to adult.
Oddly they don't have kids pimping abortion....
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