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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp yesterday

Reuters' Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked memos that reveal that: 10% of Meta revenue comes from scam ads, and; Meta knows it, and; decided not to stop about it, because; the fines for facilitating life-destroying fraud are less than the revenue from helping destroy users' lives:

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

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A tuxedoed figure dramatically shoveing greenish pigs into a tube, from whose other end vomits forth a torrent of packaged goods. He has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' avatar. He stands upon an endless field of gold coins. The background is the intaglioed upper face of the engraving of Benjamin Franklin on a US$100 bill, roughed up to a dark and sinister hue.
A tuxedoed figure dramatically shoveing greenish pigs into a tube, from whose other end vomits forth a torrent of packaged goods. He has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' avatar. He stands upon an endless field of gold coins. The background is the intaglioed upper face of the engraving of Benjamin Franklin on a US$100 bill, roughed up to a dark and sinister hue.
A tuxedoed figure dramatically shoveing greenish pigs into a tube, from whose other end vomits forth a torrent of packaged goods. He has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' avatar. He stands upon an endless field of gold coins. The background is the intaglioed upper face of the engraving of Benjamin Franklin on a US$100 bill, roughed up to a dark and sinister hue.
HistoPol (#HP) 馃彺 馃嚭馃嚫 馃彺
@HistoPol@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

@pluralistic

*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALIT脛T BEI #META?!?!

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馃憠 #Meta geht davon aus, dass 10 % seiner Einnahmen im Jahr 2024 aus Anzeigen f眉r Betrugsmaschen und verbotene Waren stammen
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馃憠...den Nutzern t盲glich 15 Milliarden betr眉gerische Anzeigen zeigen...馃憟

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

#BUNDESKRIMINALAMT: "#OrganisierteKriminalit盲t ist die von #Gewinn- oder #Machtstreben bestimmte planm盲脽ige Begehung von #Straftaten, die einzeln oder in ihrer Gesamtheit von erheblicher Bedeutung sind,...

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