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*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITÄT BEI #META?!?!
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👉10 % der Einnahmen im Jahr 2024 stammten aus Anzeigen für Betrugsmaschen und verbotene Waren👈
wenn mehr als 2 Beteiligte auf längere...Dauer arbeitsteilig...
oder unter Einflussnahme auf Politik, #Medien, öffentliche Verwaltung, Justiz oder #Wirtschaft zusammenwirken."
EIN SONDERBERICHT VON #REUTERS
Von #JeffHorwitz
Meta verdient laut Dokumenten ein Vermögen mit einer Flut von betrügerischen Anzeigen...
@pluralistic Judging by the ads I see on Facebook, 10% is on the low end.
@pluralistic I swear, someday they'll sell DVD compilations of crap-tastic YouTube ads for snake oil cures.
Saw one earlier which promised to reveal the secret of using honey to reverse memory loss. The accompanying video shows a guy putting two squares of aluminum foil is boiling water.
@pluralistic @lottajg Your income and promotions at Meta are partially based on how you have improved the income of the company. You don't get promoted at Meta by reducing revenue. It's not just an issue at the individual level, but at the group level. Those projects will always have the lowest priority. And things at the bottom of the list never get done.
They also know they have a huge false positive problem with reporting content as bad when it's not. But fixing it always ends up at the bottom of the list.
That's what happens when you believe you can measure the worth of someone using just numbers and algorithms.
We should be so fortunate to turn shit into gold. It would be a trick to play on them, wouldn’t it?
Hard to believe that Mark "They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks" Zuckerberg would sink so low 🙃.
@pluralistic Give your graphics department a raise, cause… DAMN!
@pluralistic Also- Pleased to meet’cha, albeit in cyberspace…!
@pluralistic how intuit of them
@Viss @pluralistic "The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests"
Ethics? What ethics?
@pluralistic
So many scams on Instagram. I think I may have gotten scammed just 4 days ago. Let's see if my product actually arrives. There is ZERO oversight apparently. These were Swedish dish towels. Extra charges were added (30% tax?) and the web site looks extremely phony when I visited it to complain. I've been scammed before on Instagram. Will I learn? Those towels looked great though. 😆
@pluralistic $16 billion!!! There should be a 100% tax on that revenue. + Penalties
@pluralistic When companies grow too big, legal penalties become simply the cost of doing business…
Would it not be great if they did to the book what they did to 'MaBell? split it and kick them in the arse so hard their teeth (and Zuuk) fall off. Jail, consequences and fines are not too much to ask.
*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITÄT BEI #META?!?!
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👉 #Meta geht davon aus, dass 10 % seiner Einnahmen im Jahr 2024 aus Anzeigen für Betrugsmaschen und verbotene Waren stammen
👈
👉...den Nutzern täglich 15 Milliarden betrügerische Anzeigen zeigen...👈
#BUNDESKRIMINALAMT: "#OrganisierteKriminalität ist die von #Gewinn- oder #Machtstreben bestimmte planmäßige Begehung von #Straftaten, die einzeln oder in ihrer Gesamtheit von erheblicher Bedeutung sind,...
*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITÄT BEI #META?!?!
(2/n)
👉10 % der Einnahmen im Jahr 2024 stammten aus Anzeigen für Betrugsmaschen und verbotene Waren👈
wenn mehr als 2 Beteiligte auf längere...Dauer arbeitsteilig...
oder unter Einflussnahme auf Politik, #Medien, öffentliche Verwaltung, Justiz oder #Wirtschaft zusammenwirken."
EIN SONDERBERICHT VON #REUTERS
Von #JeffHorwitz
Meta verdient laut Dokumenten ein Vermögen mit einer Flut von betrügerischen Anzeigen...
*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITÄT BEI #META?!?!
(3/n)
👉 #Meta geht davon aus, dass 10 % seiner Einnahmen im Jahr 2024 aus Anzeigen für Betrugsmaschen und verbotene Waren stammen👈 werden, wie aus Dokumenten hervorgeht, die #Reuters vorliegen. Der Social-Media-Riese schätzt intern, dass seine Plattformen 👉den Nutzern täglich 15 Milliarden betrügerische Anzeigen zeigen.👈
Zu seinen Maßnahmen gegen mutmaßliche betrügerische Vermarkter gehören die Erhebung einer Premiumgebühr für #Anzeigen...
*ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITÄT BEI #META?!?!
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.. .und die Veröffentlichung von Berichten über die „betrügerischsten Betrüger”...
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Gesamter Bericht:
The crux of the enshittification hypothesis is that companies deliberately degrade their products and services to benefit themselves at your expense *because they can*. An enshittogenic policy environment that rewards cheating, spying and monopolization will inevitably give rise to cheating, spying monopolists:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
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The crux of the enshittification hypothesis is that companies deliberately degrade their products and services to benefit themselves at your expense *because they can*. An enshittogenic policy environment that rewards cheating, spying and monopolization will inevitably give rise to cheating, spying monopolists:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
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You couldn't ask for a better example than Reuters' Facebook Fraud Files. The topline description hardly does this scandal justice. Meta's depravity and greed in the face of truly horrifying fraud and scams on its platform is breathtaking.
Here's some details: first, the company's own figures estimate that they are delivering *15 billion scam ads every single day*, which generate *$7 billion in revenue every year*.
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Despite its own automatic systems flagging the advertisers behind these scams, Meta does not terminate their account - rather, it *charges them more money* as a "disincentive." In other words, fraudulent ads are more profitable for Meta than non-scam ads.
Meta's own internal memos also acknowledge that they help scammers automatically target their most vulnerable users: if a user clicks on a scam, the automated ad-targeting system floods that user's feed with *more* scams.
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The company knows that the global fraud economy is totally dependent on Meta, with *one third of all US scams going through Facebook* (in the UK, the figure is 54% of all "payment-related scam losses"). Meta also concludes that it is uniquely hospitable to scammers, with one internal 2025 memo revealing the company's conclusion that "It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google."
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Internally, Meta has made plans to reduce the fraud on the platform, but the effort is being slow-walked because the company estimates that most it will ultimately pay in fines worldwide ads up to $1 billion, while it currently books $7 billion/year in revenue from fraud. The memo announcing the anti-fraud effort concludes that scam revenue dwarfs "the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads."
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Internally, Meta has made plans to reduce the fraud on the platform, but the effort is being slow-walked because the company estimates that most it will ultimately pay in fines worldwide ads up to $1 billion, while it currently books $7 billion/year in revenue from fraud. The memo announcing the anti-fraud effort concludes that scam revenue dwarfs "the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads."
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@pluralistic With enough money, a fine just becomes a fee or cost of business
The memo concludes that Meta will not take pro-active measures to fight fraud, and will only fight fraud in response to regulatory action.
Meta's anti-fraud team operates under an internal quota system that limits how many scam ads they are allowed to fight. A Feb 2025 memo states that the anti-fraud team is only allowed to take measures that will reduce ad revenue by 0.15% ($135m) - even though Meta's own estimate is that scam ads generate $7 billion per year for the company.
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You couldn't ask for a better example than Reuters' Facebook Fraud Files. The topline description hardly does this scandal justice. Meta's depravity and greed in the face of truly horrifying fraud and scams on its platform is breathtaking.
Here's some details: first, the company's own figures estimate that they are delivering *15 billion scam ads every single day*, which generate *$7 billion in revenue every year*.
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