Meta, the largest social media company in the world, knowingly makes billions from scam ads, recent reporting on the company says. According to internal documents revealed by Reuters, users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp see 15 billion ads a day promoting scams, from fake Trump stimulus checks to deepfakes of Elon Musk hawking cryptocurrency. The company reportedly knows this; Reuters said that its own trust and safety team estimated that one-third of scams in the US involved a Meta platform. So why hasn’t Meta done more? Perhaps because these ads are apparently highly profitable, to the tune of $7 billion US or more a year.
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/820906/meta-scam-ads-failure-remove-consequences
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/820906/meta-scam-ads-failure-remove-consequences
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