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My favorite:

After I saw an obvious scam ad for a fake store I reported it and then just started getting garbage like this for a few days, but this one was just over the top amazing

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Oh that probably explains these waves of incredibly high quality ads I've gotten
https://www.kg4cyx.net/flushbook/

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Meta should donate scam ad profits, ex-exec says

No, as an entity that knowingly received funds from criminal activity, Meta should be prosecuted and fined to the full extent of the law as an accessory to every single one of the scams. These prosecutions should also name every individual in the management chains who made the decision to keep running these ads. And sentencing should take into account the number of times that they committed the same crime.

@arstechnica why anybody is still on that platform is a mystery to me.

@arstechnica So it appears that scam ads are Meta's biggest income drivers. The bigger the scam, the more profitable for Meta.

1. Users flag scammers to Meta
2. Meta doesn't stop the scammers. They just charge them more
3. Meta helps scammers to find the most suitable targets on its platform.

Don't you just love how self regulation works in corporate social media platforms?

@arstechnica In a more reasonable world thats a RICO case. I mean, it's not just allowing scammers to run tha scam, it's actively helping them run it to get a part of the profit.

That's the very definition of organised crime right there.

@arstechnica Breaking. Immoral tech company is immoral.

@arstechnica No surprise really. Meta itself is a giant scam stealing all our data and selling it on.

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It's an old circus term, @BobWilliams

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Get off of broligarch social media.

@arstechnica Sadly, this doesn't even slightly surprise me.

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"The more strikes a bad actor accrued, the more Meta could charge to run ads, as Meta’s documents showed the company “penalized” scammers by charging higher ad rates."

They made scam ads the best way for them to make money.

Then sought that money.

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Have you seen the ads run on Google lately?

All of them are quack medicines. And I just grabbed the identifier for what looks to be the most ridiculous ad of selling is supposedly an AI puppy as a child companion in the images might be artificial, but it looks like a puppy like a living puppy, and I can only imagine the kind of scam going on

@arstechnica Meta should rename themselves to “Pseudo”, as in Pseudo privacy, pseudo profit, pseudo encryption etc

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Huh, and still no indictments, no jail, no fines no dissolution of company no anything of consequence, funny how that works.

@arstechnica I'd love to see a study about what percentage of YouTube ads are scams. It's not a small percentage.

@arstechnica *pretends to be shocked*

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I'll be on the lookout for a class action lawsuit notice.

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I just want to point out here that Ars Tecnica is owned by Condé Nast which just fired their entire political reporting team at Teen Vogue.
So is Wired

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I can't think of a better demonstration of the concept that the creators of AI intend to control entire populations

@arstechnica Shocking!

@arstechnica it is time for Meta out of business.

#AltText4You: The Meta sign at 1 hacker way

@arstechnica thanks for covering this, and thanks also for sharing it here ... but could you please include alt text on your images?

@arstechnica It's meta. what more can we expect

@arstechnica The best is to get out of #meta. All of it. At once …