Facebook and Instagram Are Paradises for Scammers
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The story discusses a report revealing Facebook and Instagram's role in facilitating scams, with commenters criticizing Meta's prioritization of revenue over user safety and calling for the company's dismantling.
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Are you being serious here? Do you have the smallest idea how those products work? Like how they are happy to show illegal ads, knowing that it brings more profit than the fines they will anyway probably not get? Like the documented impact it has on society?
Do you consider that "they track everything you (and everybody else) do, many times in downright illegal ways, in order to manipulate you (and everybody else)" counts as "completely on your own terms"?
It's called "surveillance capitalism", it's not meant to sound good.
It doesn't. You use Facebook and Instagram on Meta's terms. I can't use them without viewing reels, for example, neither defaulting them to a chronological timeline.
"The team tasked with vetting fraudulent ads had a guideline not to impact more than 0.15% of Meta’s revenue — roughly US$135 million of US$90 billion in H1 2025.
There's clear line in the sand drawn where Meta prioritizes revenue despite knowingly harming people. This company should be dismantled.