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Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook's Political Ads

by breadwinner on 10/1/25, 9:05 PM with 2 comments

  • by gs17 on 10/1/25, 11:40 PM

    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.