Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.

Reuters found Meta projected 10% of its 2024 ad revenue came from scams and banned goods yet kept cashing the checks. Profit over protection, no meaningful guardrails. Delete Meta, stop letting them steal our data. #MetaFails #ScamAds #BigTechGreed #ProtectConsumers
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Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads

Facebook approved deepfake political ads showing fake government officials promising $5K payouts. Top scam advertisers spent $49M over 7 years; half were still running ads after violations. #MetaFails #Deepfakes #PoliticalAds #NoGuardrails

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The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to cozy up to Trump have concerning consequences.

Meta killed its fact‑checking program in Jan 2025, flipping the switch that once stopped viral hoaxes. Pope‑endorses‑Trump–style disinfo can now spread unchecked again on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. #MetaFails #Disinformation #NoFactCheck #Propaganda

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Big Tech's Broken Promises - Issue One A project of Issue One, the Big Tech’s Broken Promises tracker catalogs the history of public proclamations and policy changes announced by the largest technology companies that purported to protect…

Meta's own tracker shows 91% of Russian state media posts on Facebook carried no warning label despite promises to flag them all. Broken promises, zero accountability. #MetaFails #RussianDisinfo #BrokenPromises #BigTech
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Exposing social media platforms’ failures to protect their users Testing the ability of social media companies to detect hate speech and misinformation, exposed stark differences in these platforms’ abilities to enforce their own policies

Global Witness submitted genocide‑inciting ads to Facebook in Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Meta approved every single one for publication. Zero guardrails for non‑English users. #MetaFails #Genocide #HateSpeech #ContentModeration

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Meta’s decision to ditch fact-checking gives state-sponsored influence operations more chance The social media giant’s move to user-based content moderation is a perilous step that risks enabling state-backed disinformation attacks.

Meta killed its fact‑checking program in Jan 2025, replacing it with crowd‑sourced "Community Notes." Experts warn state actors can now game moderation from within. #MetaFails #FactCheck #Propaganda #NoGuardrails

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Got flagged for captioning these "I love Super sassy Buddhist statues so much"
Meta = failure

So Zuckerberg has decided to follow Musk’s playbook: scrap fact-checkers and prioritize profit over truth. Meta is now an even bigger breeding ground for misinformation. When billionaires control the narrative, democracy takes the hit. #MetaFails #Disinformation https://buff.ly/3BOWNiW

Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform. The content moderation changes won’t be rolled out in the EU for now.

So Zuckerberg has decided to follow Musk’s playbook: scrap fact-checkers and prioritize profit over truth. Meta is now an even bigger breeding ground for misinformation. When billionaires control the narrative, democracy takes the hit. #MetaFails #Disinformation