Facebook is the new Topix

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I've been meaning to put this up for a while.  It really is crazy what goes on over there it's like topix on steriods


Sky News investigation: Prescription drugs sold illegally on Facebook
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20th July 2017


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Powerful and addictive prescription drugs are illegally being offered for sale on Facebook, a Sky News investigation has discovered.

And the US social media giant has been refusing to remove accounts even when users have reported them.
Drugs including Valium, Xanax and Pregabalin, an increasingly popular sedative linked to several deaths in the UK, were on offer. Opioids responsible in the USA for a huge rise in drug abuse over recent years – were also available.

The Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told Sky News that the availability of sedatives, tranquilisers and opioids on the platform completely changes the game.
Danny Lee-Frost, head of enforcement at the MHRA, told Sky News: The sleeping pills and antidepressants are a lot more dangerous.
People have committed suicide as the ultimate resort to try and get off them. These are fiercely addictive.
Facebook’s own Community Standards say: We prohibit any attempts by unauthorised dealers to purchase, sell or trade prescription drugs, marijuana, firearms or ammunition.
And: We prohibit the use of Facebook to facilitate or organise criminal activity.
Sky News initially reported the accounts using Facebook’s tools. Each account was allowed to remain.
Messages from Facebook Support said: We’ve looked over the profile you reported, and although it doesn’t go against any of our specific Community Standards, we understand that the profile or something the person shared may still be offensive to you.
Sky News then contacted Facebook’s press office to ask why the accounts didn’t apparently breach their community standards, even though they broke British law.
After we contacted Facebook for comment, all the drug dealing profiles were removed. The company refused our request for an interview but gave us this statement:
Buying, selling, or trading prescription drugs isn’t allowed on Facebook and we urge people to use our reporting tools if they come across this kind of activity, so we can investigate and take swift action.
We’re grateful to Sky News for flagging this content to us and have removed the pages for breaking our standards.
However, Sky News was still easily able to discover dozens more drug dealing accounts on the platform.
Sky News spoke with one drug dealer, based in Cameroon and sending deliveries to the UK, who said he’d been using Facebook to sell prescription drugs for three to four years. It’s easier for me to work (on Facebook), he told us.
Had he ever been in trouble with Facebook? No, no, he replied.
Does Facebook care? No, he added.
Sky News also found more traditional recreational drugs for sale, including Ketamine, cannabis and MDMA.
Mr Lee-Frost told Sky News that the rise in sedatives on the web was worrying.
We’ve always seen anabolic steroids on the web.
But we are now seeing a lot more sleeping tablets, seeing a lot more anti-anxieties, diazepam and benzo-diazepam, those types of products, being available.
The sleeping pills and antidepressants are a lot more dangerous, they’re a lot more addictive.
That’s the reason they’re prescription only.
That changes the game completely.
Facebook relies on its two billion users to flag illegal or inappropriate content, but the company has faced criticism for failing to remove accounts, whether for drugs, extremism or abuse.
Earlier this year, chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Yvette Cooper MP, said: Social media companies’ failure to deal with illegal and dangerous material online is a disgrace.

[solarpunch]

I've seen a few deep hidden posts of FB and IG about sourcing for controlled meds. All the posts look scammy and I would never take them seriously. But the fact that there posted is disturbing since I like the idea of finding what we all seek more hidden and private. I see that method as setting a signal fire for others who don't understand to pay more attention. Let's hope they fall off soon.

[Balls and chain]

wow, scary.

[FrostyNugz828]

If you use Face Book to source your meds you are just asking for trouble! Avoid at all costs would be my advice

[barq2]

My biggest concern is that facebook is the real me. I've got colleagues and family there. Seems too public - or maybe I've misunderstood/

What I have seen is loads of selling on Instagram. Most of it seems like face to face deals. So I guess you need to live in a city.

[Charon]

It is a concern. Both LE and attorneys seeking to prosecute or others will hit social media first. Potential employers look for pics of the applicant drinking. There is a wealth of info about a potential worker with tagged in photos. If one does not change all privacy settings.

My facebook is on lockdown. 8 people can leave me a message. Nieces, nephew, son, and maybe three whom i met online many years ago.

We have a brilliant member on here. He does not come by often. Academia. But, he would copy and paste for me all these facebook sales pages. Pictures and all of the product.

I do know these vendors of sorts caught the eye of LE. Many of them seemed to be young men in college. RC meds. All sorts of things. But, I would read them to see what was up in this ever changing online world. It seemed to me that most meds advertised that i saw about a year ago, were students or professors or workers in a College and were stealing meds or were authorized to nab them for whatever project they were on. I do not believe to vend to others would be considered a course in college that would win one points in academia.

They seemed to have their pics up also. It was crazy. And, because i read about any of this stuff I can find, I knew LE was all over facebook due to those ads.

I had to close my professional account in a different forum, cuz people recognized my pic or my name. They all followed me or gave me ratings. My God, It was a professional page. Not for people trying to peddle meds.

It would seem social media is a hot place for stupid vendors to put up fol de rol, and for LE to have a field day reading same.

But, again, my facebook is on lockdown. I get no news. No ads. It is purely to speak with family members in case of an emergency.

And, never trust the facebook settings. NO one was allowed to see my picture. Or become my friend without permission. But a few yrs ago, before people realized how serious facebook fame could become, one could look at pics of women. Somehow they befriended me. Without my saying yes.

I shall never trust facebook. Its creator was a creep toward women in college. I don't imagine his morals have improved. Unethical IMHO.

[cmdline]

unfortunately we live now on facebook age glad ive checked out from it years ago, but its so true someone i know before hiring will always ask them to add them as friend on fb,and if person is complete tosser they most likely wont get to interview stage.thats done a lot now before screening for prospective employees,specially those just out of colleges.

that said was wondering were topix went since while never used it,but there were people with legit pointers, but to buy of fb or topix might as well buy using google search and get scammed out of cash.since so easy to manipulate responses or reviews on there that it became more of a grinder dating site above all.

[barq2]

That's so true about facebook and employers - well, most social media really. That said, employers can be lazy. If I get 60 applications for a job, I might do a search, but never beyond the first page of google search results (unless I have cause for concern). Join Linkedin and similar networks so you have some professional stuff (if appropriate to your career), keep non-professional social networks tightly locked down, and be careful about what other people post about you. I don't let friends take photos of me in bars in case they get tagged. I drink alcohol, but don't want to shout it from the rooftops.

If you think Facebook is too public for online med sales, just have a look at YouTube... or maybe don't given how much tracking they do!!! BTW you aren't missing much, it mostly looks like scams. There's like a whole genre of "drug porn" with people pose as proud owners of 1000 xanax bars, with a handwritten name tag to prove it really is them. Seriously. Sometimes they even show their face for extra bragging rights. *facepalm*