Meta Is Letting Fake "AI"-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms

Couldn't that be practicing medicine without a license? Charge Facebook as a company. It's like the question of who gets a ticket with self-driving cars? I say the company who owns the car does and they get held to the same standards. Too many tickets? That company loses their license to drive in that state.

This has been known for a while, there was an article published a couple of months back that exposed some internal documents from Meta. They know about these scams, but they make much more money from selling the adspaces to these scammers than the fines cost them if they get sued/caught. It's a calculated venture they happily keep up.

The documents note that Meta plans to try to cut the share of Facebook and Instagram revenue derived from scam ads. In the meantime, Meta has internally acknowledged that regulatory fines for scam ads are certain, and anticipates penalties of up to $1 billion, according to one internal document.

But those fines would be much smaller than Meta’s revenue from scam ads, a separate document from November 2024 states. Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that “present higher legal risk,” the document says, such as those falsely claiming to represent a consumer brand or public figure or demonstrating other signs of deceit. That figure almost certainly exceeds “the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.”

Rather than voluntarily agreeing to do more to vet advertisers, the same document states, the company’s leadership decided to act only in response to impending regulatory action.

Meta has never cut down on scams because they take a cut oif the money stolen from their users.

The sl;opbots are just the newest scam they're getting rich on.

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