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Meta’s tricky quest to protect your account

Meta says it applies the concepts of “adversarial design” to build systems with the assumption that attackers will try to exploit them, rather than ignoring the reality of these risks and being caught off guard. Using some of the same signal analysis methodology, Meta plans to roll out more nuanced warnings to users for Facebook Messenger and Instagram to automatically redirect suspicious links to spam when they may lead to targeted phishing attacks or malware.