Welcome to the latest issue of Digital Investigations!
Earlier this year, I spent a few months investigating Facebook Marketplace, the social giant’s wildly successful peer-to-peer sales product. We uncovered how the company fails to protect buyers and sellers from scam listings, fake accounts and violent crime. The story took months of work, and was based on internal documents, interviews with workers, law enforcement records, and work I did to document scams and fake accounts on Marketplace…