A recent Reuters investigation alleges that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, earned billions from fraudulent ads, leaving consumers on the hook, including an increasing number of ...

Meta's ad machine is under fresh scrutiny after internal projections suggested that a double digit share of its 2024 revenue could be tied to scams and banned products, a slice of business worth tens ...

Internal documents reviewed by Reuters suggest that Meta Platforms has quietly turned scam advertising on Facebook and Instagram into a multibillion dollar business line, even as the company publicly ...

Meta said Tuesday it banned more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts this year linked to scam operations, as the company fights a wave of criminal activity on the internet that has wrangled billions of ...

A new examination of internal company records has raised fresh questions about how much Meta benefited financially from fraudulent advertising, particularly from China-based clients pushing illegal ...

A recent Reuters investigation alleges that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, earned billions from ...

Social media giant Meta expected about 10 percent of its 2024 revenue, roughly $16 billion, to come from running ads for scams and banned goods, according to internal projections reported by Reuters.

DAYTON — Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is launching new tools to combat scams on its platforms after users lost nearly $3 billion to social media scams in the past year and a ...

“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. Yeah, this seems bad. According to a new report from ...

That “easy money” or “rapid weight loss” ad in your social feed may actually be a scam.

The growth in artificial intelligence and deep fakes is adding to consumers’ fears around scam and “suspicious” ads, according to Dan Wilks, director of Credos, who unveiled the results of the Credos ...

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 ...