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Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue || Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampant-ad-fraud-china-safeguard-billions-revenue-2025-12-15/

Archive: https://archive.ph/k8LHw

ThrowawayOnLemmy - 13hr

Pretty sure Google does too.

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FactChecker @lemmy.world - 12hr

Defo. Meta also continues to profit from Russian propaganda, enabled the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, etc

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Ludicrous0251 - 10hr

Dead platform full of bots clings desperately to life by selling out the attention spans of the remaining few users too oblivious to notice the pot boiling.

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ProfThadBach @lemmy.world - 10hr

The only thing I use it for is marketplace and that is shit. I wish my American Legion post would stop using it.

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BoycottTwitter @lemmy.zip - 6hr

No matter what we will not tolerate this. I urge everyone to stop "tolerating" meta and boycott their products like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Also install uBlock Origin and block all the ads.

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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean - 45min

My mother…boomers and a lot of Gen X…are completely addicted to Facebook. They find it essential because of all its lame social organizing groups and marketplace…so they end up also getting all their information from it…information mixed with these scams.

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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean - 47min

Just fucking regulate them. If somebody gets scammed…make Facebook pay for part of the restitution.

This is what happens when companies “self regulate”. The strategy is basically “we’ll do absolutely nothing to hurt revenue…but we’ll absolutely pretend we’re doing something”.

The only way Facebook is going to hire actual people to look at random ads before they’re posted…which is the only thing that will work…is if they pay a steep enough penalty when people get scammed.

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