Publications by Eric Niewoehner
I have noticed over the past couple of years the increase in traffic of groups in Facebook which focus on history or heritage. I have joined a few. Most are obviously connected to the group’s subject judged from their intuitive awareness of local history, issues and events. But I noticed some anomalies with some of…
Social media is flooded with fake accounts. One way of solving that riddle is to introduce a scale, or a score, that will verify that the account is a real person or busin
In April this year I wrote an article on what I call “phantom buyers”, these pretend accounts on Facebook that exploit security vulnerabilities in Facebook’s Marketplace. I have been heavily engaged in Facebook’s Marketplace for the past few months because we are preparing to move back to Missouri. So I have been quite intrigued by the frequent encounters with “phantom buyer