Careful where you click

  • Ben Silvertown
We raised awareness to online safety by hacking Facebook.

Using a bit of malicious code, disguised as a vine video, we managed to get onto over 100,000 people's newsfeed's in a day. Once watched, our video shared itself on your Facebook without your permission. Secretly forcing innocent watchers to propagate the video, causing a viral like chain reaction through Facebooks network. Rather than just use any video, we used the opportunity to help raise awareness to online safety, so I created an informative video explaining why users should, in future, click carefully.