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Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue (www.reuters.com)
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Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide.

Though China’s authoritarian government bans use of Meta social media by its citizens, Beijing lets Chinese companies advertise to foreign consumers on the globe-spanning platforms. As a result, Meta’s advertising business was thriving in China, ultimately reaching over $18 billion in annual sales in 2024, more than a tenth of the company’s global revenue.

But Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters.

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[–] miked@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Meta likes money. News at 11.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Amazon also endorses fraud. Found a product which had a blatant lie in the description and specification pages but do you think I can find the report product button? Absolutely no where to be found.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

It's worse than that. There are several cases of amazon censoring reviews of fake products while protecting scam companies.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

a doii

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Use ublock origin and delete all accounts with meta to protect yourself and your family.