Report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

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Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them.

In a lengthy report, Reuters exposed five years of Meta practices and failures that allowed scammers to take advantage of users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/

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I'd assume Google / Youtube would be more or less on the same boat.

The amount of complete non-sense advertised on Youtube here locally is quite stagerring.

All these FOREX ads that promise entirely unrealistic gains,
they even ripped a popular news page design for their lander to make it appear official.
And use AI deepfakes of public personas to tout and endorse the solution.

All approved and running massive numbers.

While it's often extremely difficult to get approved with Google to advertise something like dating.
These ads apparently had no issue with approval at all.