Newly uncovered documents show that Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, earns huge sums from ads linked to scams and banned products. According to internal reports, the company ...

With the holiday season upon us, many of us will go online to do our Christmas shopping, reach out to old friends and relatives and send a few dollars to those in need. Yet among all the warm holiday ...

As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has ...

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents ...

Bottom line: Meta insists that it is making steady progress against fraudulent advertising. "We aggressively fight fraud and scams because people on our platforms don't want this content, legitimate ...

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds. As scam compounds in ...

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