The hacking group Anonymous is allegedly threatening to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5, accusing the social networking site of spying on users, cooperating with authoritarian governments and abusing people's privacy.
In the video, Anonymous claims that Facebook was working with authorities in Egypt and Syria in order to spy on people and was also allegedly providing information to security companies about users on the site. The settings on Facebook intended to make certain information more private are a "delusion," the group claimed.
But the threat has not been posted on Anonymous' prolific Twitter feed or its blog, anonops.blogspot.com, leading some experts to wonder if it really originates with the group or is a fake.
The video "was posted almost a month ago and yet has not been widely publicised, or publicised at all, on the usual Anonymous channels, the Twitter profiles that appear to be associated are inactive," wrote Rik Ferguson, director of security research and communication at Trend Micro, on a company blog.
Ferguson noted that a Twitter profile associated with the threat also appears to be inactive.
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