Dear f***ing lord!

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@campuscodi indeed horrific. Meta even admits that 10% of its global revenue comes from fraud and scam ads.

A small correction, they write: " 14.5 million ads running on Meta platforms across the EU and UK, representing more than 10.7 billion impressions. Nearly one in three of those ads (30.99%) pointed to a scam, phishing or malware link. In total, scam ads generated more than 300 million impressions"

So one in three ads CREATED was classified as scam. But "only" 2.8% of ads SHOWN was scam.

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@campuscodi reference for Meta scam ads revenue: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

@campuscodi When I was on FB, I tried reporting the scam ads, but they got their coin and didn't care. It's appalling.

Allan Chow

@campuscodi so as a company advertising on it i should be able to claim that Facebook is intentionally inflating the marketplace impacting my Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)!

cwicseolfor

@kimlockhartga @campuscodi Yeah, only once did they accept/ act on my report and the same scam company was back not six months later. That was probably 2016ish.

Bioinformático cabreado

@campuscodi Griftonomics

Nu Modular

@grumpasaurus @campuscodi This sounds like Trauma that inevitably spells ROAST'ed.

Allan Chow

@numodular @campuscodi it's definitely one of those actonyms rhat fucking came out of nowhere and suddenly within a week EVERYONE WAS SAYING IT "ROW-AS"

fancysandwiches

@campuscodi They've already factored in the cost of government enforcement. I don't have the exact numbers, but they calculated that at most they'd lose something like 10% of the revenue from the scam ads due to enforcement, so it was worth it to keep allowing them.

I'm not saying that governments shouldn't crack down on this, but I don't think we can expect enforcement to make a difference until laws are changed that make the enforcement actually meaningful, until then they'll keep exposing their users to scams, and they'll keep profiting, while paying a small enforcement tax.

Rev. caffinepwrd ☕

@campuscodi It's almost as if profit motive is incongruent to public good.

I hate what we've done to the world.