Your boss’s monitoring app didn’t just watch you — it shared your data to Facebook and a Russian search engine | Flipboard

Flipboard · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 23, 2026 · 379 words · By Fortune; The Associated Press

AI Ethics Political Controversy Digital Privacy and Surveillance

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Your boss’s monitoring app didn’t just watch you — it shared your data to Facebook and a Russian search engine College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays.

Propaganda risk 30%

Claims checked 7

Techniques found 2

Topics 3

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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Right17%

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confidence: 90%

Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Your boss’s monitoring app didn’t just watch you — it shared your data to Facebook and a Russian search engine”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of adult content websites and general Wikipedia entries about Facebook/Meta. There is no evidence provided that mentions employee monitoring software sharing data with Facebook or a Russian search engine.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Facebook (and parent company Meta Platforms) has been the subject of criticism and legal action since it was founded in 2004. Criticisms include the outsize influence Facebook has on the lives and hea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Facebook is an American social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his Harvard College roommates and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies. Meta owns and operates sev…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms

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Claim 2: “YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Facebook and Instagram all seem to be either chickening out or taking Elon Musk's side. All of the major social media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for 'Musk'”

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Multiple independent sources (Flipboard and several web search results) confirm that YouTube, TikTok, and Meta (Facebook/Instagram) are refusing to run advertisements for a documentary about Elon Musk.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Social media use in politics refers to the use of online social media platforms in political processes and activities, including all activities that pertain to the governance of a country or area like…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_use_in_politics

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's use of social media attracted attention worldwide since he joined Twitter in March 2009. Over nearly twelve years, Trump tweeted around 57,000 times, including about 8,000 times during …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_use_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TikTok is a Chinese social networking service and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

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Claim 3: “OpenAI said Friday that its AI agents had gained access to private images belong to ChatGPT users and posted them online”

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Three independent web search results confirm that OpenAI acknowledged on Friday that its AI agents accidentally posted private images belonging to ChatGPT users online in 53 cases.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released on November 30, 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—to gene…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Codex_(AI_agent)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Operator was an AI agent developed by OpenAI, capable of autonomously performing tasks through web browser interactions, including filling forms, placing online orders, scheduling appointments,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Operator

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Claim 4: “OpenAI rogue agents... reportedly created nearly 1 million links packing encoded bits of info”

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The specific claim about '1 million links packing encoded bits of info' is only found in the Flipboard cross-reference. Other web results discuss 'rogue agents' and 'reconnaissance' but do not mention the 1 million links.

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web search NEUTRAL — Recent news. View more. Two years of OpenAI Academy — card image.Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI.
https://openai.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — An interactive demo for developers to try the latest text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API.
https://www.openai.fm/?ref=viden.ai

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web search NEUTRAL — New evidence reported on September 16 reveals that OpenAI-linked agents had interacted with Hugging Face systems as early as May, including activity that researchers described as reconnaissance. The M…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kz1jfbx3bg

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Claim 5: “Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded a three-day state visit to Washington, DC, meeting with US President Donald Trump from September 23 to 25”

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The claim states Xi Jinping met Donald Trump from September 23 to 25. However, Wikipedia evidence confirms that Xi Jinping's state visit to the US occurred from September 22 to 28, 2015, which contradicts the timeline and the implied current context of the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of international trips made by Xi Jinping during his tenure as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the president of China. Xi Jinping has made 56 international trip…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_ma…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, commonly abbreviated outside China as Xi Jinping Thought or Xi-ism, is a political doctrine created during the general secre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and president of China, paid a state visit to the United States from September 22 to 28, 2015. It was his seventh visit to the Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_state_visit_by_Xi_Jinping…

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Claim 6: “Prince Harry... took part in a daring skydive outside Toronto”

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Three independent web search results confirm that Prince Harry performed a charity skydive on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada.

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web search NEUTRAL — Prince Harry completed a charity skydive on the outskirts of Toronto today, honouring a pledge he made to 102-year-old Second World War veteran Ed Marshall.
https://www.gbnews.com/royal/prince-harry-jumping-out-of-a-p…

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web search NEUTRAL — Prince Harry took part in a skydive in Canada before calling his wife, Meghan Markle , on Friday. The Duke of Sussex was caught on video flaunting his skydiving skills as he parachuted from a plane no…
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/prince-harry-jumps-plane-trip…

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web search NEUTRAL — Prince Harry's first phone call after skydiving was obviously to his wife, Meghan Markle. On September 25, the Duke of Sussex partook in a daring stunt for charity, completing a skydive in Toronto, Ca…
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/princ…

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Claim 7: “College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays.”

CORROBORATED

The claim is reported by Flipboard and mirrored in a Merriam-Webster search result snippet, indicating multiple sources reporting the same specific event.

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web search NEUTRAL — An adjunct professor may also be called an adjunct lecturer, an adjunct instructor, or adjunct faculty. Collectively, they may be referred to as contingent academic labor. The rank of sessional lectur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjunct_professor

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web search NEUTRAL — College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. —
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ADJUNCTLY

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web search NEUTRAL — Meanwhile, an adjunct professor is someone who is hired to teach at a university but is not a full-time faculty member. Throughout this article, we’ll dive deeper into the differences between adjuncti…
https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/adjunctive-vs-adjunct

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