Facebook glitch reveals Greta Thunberg’s social media posts are ghost-written by her father and a UN climate change delegate

Time Magazine’s Puppet Of The Year continues to provide unintended entertainment. What a sham. MH

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.

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:14 UTC

Svante Thunberg posting as Greta Thunberg

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.

Svante Thunberg posting as Greta Thunberg

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.

https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden/posts/1031956330505520

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.

Greta Thunberg Facebook page

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.

Greta Thunberg Facebook transparency page

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

People who run sensitive Pages from their own Facebook should now consider that their identity may be known,” said Lukasz Olejnik independent privacy adviser and Oxford University Center for Technology and Global Affairs. “While mistakes happen, this one is unexpected.”

Greta's Thunder Greta
.”of course it’s not me silly – you should have known I just ‘co-manage’ the fan page.”.
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2 thoughts on “Facebook glitch reveals Greta Thunberg’s social media posts are ghost-written by her father and a UN climate change delegate

  1. I feel sorry for Greta, who is not writing her own pages and who cannot answer any questions that she is not pre-groomed to answer; she has been asked questions outside of her preapred answers and she always respond the way “Crazy Cortez” does, with a loony answer or a “I don’t have to answer questions.”

    The “school” she attends is a special scshool for disbled children which does not even take roll; if you are having a stressful, anxious, depressed or other type feelings any particualr morning, whether you go to school or not is not important…”roll” is never taken there!

    I do not feel sorry for her parents, who have groomed her to be an ambassador for a worldwide lie, global warming….the earth has been cooling over the last two hundred years, ever since the last mini-ice age happened:

    Here is the TRUTH about global warming:

    Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate: Dr Dan Britt [55:49]
    https://youtu.be/xgNxF2HlN3w?t=1

    Fair Use: Educational

    youtube.com – 2 years ago

    The Chinese, Germans, Britsh and one Scandinavian coungry, not Greta’s, has told their people to prepare for cooler weather in the future….

    The UN refuses to use the Russian climate prediction model, because it actually is the ONLY climate lodel that works!

    1. “The Chinese, Germans, British and one Scandinavian country, not Greta’s, has told their people to prepare for cooler weather in the future…”.
      That’s interesting. Judging by the mainstream media stuff we see (especially the BBC) it appears the British are being fed the same “runaway global warming” stuff we are here in NZ.Do you have a source?
      China I’m not at all surprised about though. The Climate Emergency shutdown of Western industrial infrastructure is wonderful for their Belt And Road plan.

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