Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News
https://sherwood.news/tech/rather-than-fully-cracking-down-on-scam-ads-meta-worked-to-make-them-harder/
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 93 pts · 215d
Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social · 53 pts · 215d
Not surprising at all.
US will remain a chauvinistic plutocracy until Zuckerberg and all his goons are caught and put in ball and chains.
And that's just one case, there is also Meta's enablement of the Rohingya genocide, which is arguably a far more serious crime than systematic enablement of mass scale fraud.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 214d
FACEBOOK has been shoving right wing content to its user for at least a decade or more. why would they stop, and its a big revenue source, plus AI is helping doing that. this is REDDITS FUTURE TOO.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 214d
He'll be in his Hawaii bunker.
devolution@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 214d
Fuck that. Zuckerberg and his cronies, plus their families a d anyone even remotely related to them or anyone who shares even 1/10th of their thought processes need the Romanov treatment.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 214d
Leave the families and "related" people alone. What the fuck you psycho.
C1pher@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 214d
You dont say. Its their entire business model and majority of their revenue and income.
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 23 pts · 215d
This appears to be the whole article:
TWeaK@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 215d
And this appears to be the Reuters article your image is referring to: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 214d
I deleted my Facebook profile last year after 18 years and never looked back. It's a totally different platform than what I signed up for almost two decades ago. Absolutely zero value for me now.
I'm so glad Valve is releasing a VR headset so I don't need to have anything to do with a trash company like Meta.
Killer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 214d
Valve has had a vr headset for a while now, they just have a new one coming out.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 215d
Meta actively doesn’t care about AI fake profiles or scammy shit.
Even TikTok cares more and actually take down shit if you report it and it’s supposed to be the evil propaganda machine 😆
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 214d
TIKTOK will be evil once ELLISON controls the US BRANCH OF IT.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 214d
Crazy how evil people find other evil people to marry and start families with.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 214d
Won't someone think of the lizard people?!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 214d
ANDROID, zuckerborg acts more like a machine than human.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 214d
As if there's not already more than enough reasons to always have an ad blocker... If you absolutely still need to use Facebook and Instagramto keep in touch with people, there's browser extensions and patched apps that still block the ads.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 214d
If you are on Android, Revanced has several ad-free versions for popular applications like YouTube and spotify. I paid 30 bucks for a lifetime subscription to AdGuard back in 2019 and the experience has been extraordinary.
It's always a jarring experience to use someone else's phone. Ads take up at least a third of the screen at any given time now. I'm not swimming in that shit.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 214d
Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?
pycorax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 214d
Don't really use Facebook anymore so I can't help you there I'm afraid.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 214d
Harder to find? When I accidentally go to Facebook I exclusively get scam ads (I disabled ads personalization, though)
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 214d
FB is also a sea of AI videos that are being passed off as real.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 5 pts · 214d
And old people commenting without realizing it's AI
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 214d
Fortunately a good number of comments point out that it is AI crap. For some reason the majority of these videos come from Pakistan and the middle east.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 214d
Capitalists gonna capitalist.
Minimac@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 214d
I deleted my account on Facebook last year I feel good never go back on there ever again.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 214d
you dropped these ..
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 214d
Of course, it and AI slop means more fucking money.
petrjanda@gonzo.markets · 3 pts · 214d
I'd love to delete/suspend my Facebook but unfortunately it is the only conctact I have for many ex work colleagues and some friends.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 214d
are they really your friends though if they dont want to engage with you over any other way?
petrjanda@gonzo.markets · 2 pts · 213d
Honestly, many friends who live in other towns I stay in touch with using messanger so theoretically I could disable Facebook and keep messenger but Facebook is more for former work colleagues that I occasionally say hi to. It would have been a lot easier if i could just have WhatsApp with timeline and marketplace.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 214d
Same, it is mainly a messaging platform for me for people who I otherwise can't reach.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 214d
i only ever used FB for game related tokens, like for RS which offer tokens, or keys for doing "fake scam offers". othr than that i never use it. only recently UBLOCK to get around thier login popups, so i can download new RA2 maps.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 215d
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 214d
making them harder to find makes them more effective
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 215d