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Social brand destruction: A survivor’s account

8 points| appdrag | 7 years ago |medium.com

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dublinben|7 years ago

They claim to have an "industry-leading security profile" and yet they allowed user generated content to be hosted under their primary domain. At least this was an inexpensive way to learn that lesson.

wass08|7 years ago

Right, even Wordpress and Weebly are doing the same with their domain name. Wondering how they are not banned from sharing.

CM30|7 years ago

It's like negative SEO for social media sites. Associate a service/company you dislike with spam and offensive content, flood social media services with it and get them wiped out immediately afterwards.

It's a trick that'd probably work just as well on Twitter and Reddit than it would Facebook.

js4ever|7 years ago

Indeed, this trick should work on any social network, that's scary! Although it seems facebook is now doing a good job to quickly review again and unban domains when the offending content is removed.