Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook's Political Ads

(nytimes.com)

20 points | by breadwinner 20 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • gs17 17 hours ago ago

    Really, there's no need to focus on political ads or on Facebook. It feels like all ads everywhere are full of scams now.

    > “Meta is very aware of these types of scams,” said Katie A. Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project. “They just didn’t care.”

    Same goes for Google, and for plenty of other bad behaviors.

    • mac-attack 15 hours ago ago

      Traditionally, of the big 5, Facebook has always been the most amoral. ie their leaked rules around AI flirting with kids.