Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’ https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @npub1z08h...w6tq to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.

Jimmy Kimmel has been must-watch over the past few days. Total 🔥 monologues. Also, Spinal Tap!

Democracy in the US is under serious threat by a deranged orange comestible, but you wouldn't see any signs of that from watching the absolutely delusional stock market, which seems to only care about AI stocks continuing to lift the entire market thanks to their outsized value in it and all the wealth tied up in some fairly shaky but critical assumptions. In other news, Financial Times reports just now that Oracle's market value jumped $200B thanks to a surge in AI investment, taking Larry Ellison's worth to that of Elon Musk.

I've never before seen this particular 550 error in response to an email that was sent to me by a reader. Proton seems to be dunking on their own user here. "550 5.6.0 Message rejected due to potential violation of our ToS by the recipient"

Alternative headline: Biggest purveyor of bullshit machines complains there's too much bullshit on the interwebs.

TechCrunch

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'  | TechCrunch

After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

Making it easier for Americans to access their own health records is a laudable goal. I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is sometimes to get our own records from healthcare providers -- even when it is a matter of urgency or a critical health issue. But creating a system where Big Tech gets to share your medical records so you can access them wherever is an extremely bad idea for health data security. For starters, it does nothing to address the reality that healthcare companies in general have absolutely atrocious security practices and some of leanest security budgets you've ever seen for large organizations trusted with such sensitive information. More importantly, we still don't have any data privacy laws that are relevant to life in the 21st century. How about we work on that before we just punt a broken system to the tech bros? https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

New, at KrebsOnSecurity.com: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI – Krebs on Security

The POTUS has issued a memo ordering a federal investigation into Chris Krebs, former head of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The president fired Krebs after the CISA director declared the 2020 election that Trump lost was the most secure in U.S. history. "Trump's orders revoked the security clearances for Christopher Krebs, the former head of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Miles Taylor, a former senior DHS official who wrote a highly critical tell-all book about his time in Trump's first administration." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/09/trump-orders-probe-krebs-2020-election/83016002007/

The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship

RESTORING TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by Chris

When Trump first took aim at Chris Krebs back in 2020, I started getting tons of hate mail that was directed at him. People full of ignorant rage figuring we're the same person because we share a last name. We're not even related. Now it's happening again. Here's one I just got less than an hour ago: From: Eric <eticket@countermail.com> Subject: Accountability Message Body: Krebs: I used to be an admirer of yours but, ever since the 2020 election, I lost all respect for you. You either lied or were complicit in the 2020 election theft and DJT is coming after you. Krooks like Krebs need to be held accountable and I can't wait.