Facebook is full with this shit. I deem them legally complicit in drug dealing/trafficking/whatnot
Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
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Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#22There's just no excuse for this anymore – why don't they apply their own state-of-the-art LLMs to analyze these and flag the adds as pushing potentially illegal substances? Because as it's painfully obvious now, Meta doesn't care, they're happy to take the money.
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Because there is absolutely zero evidence that there are drugs being physically trafficked at Meta's offices?
What should happen is that a court should be able to drag responsible executives in front of a judge, issue massive fines for what has already happened, and order that Meta stop running ads until they can present an agreeable plan to prevent these kinds of ads from running.
Then they should be under a consent degree, and subject to regular government inspection, and if the agreed upon mitigation plan isn't being followed and these kinds of ads are running again, the same executives should be dragged back in front of court, Meta should be prohibited from running ads for months as a punishment, and to force them back to the drawing board to fix the issue permanently, and the responsible executives should be given significant personal fines, and a short jail sentence for violating court orders.
Rinse and repeat until either Meta is permanently barred from running ads, putting them out of business, and/or the responsible executives (including the CEO if applicable) have enough strikes that they get a decade or so in prison to make an example of what happens when you refuse to operate a business within the law and kill people with black market drugs.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#24Advertising networks get away with so much, it's quite ridiculous. The same company that will ban your account for posting about such content, will regularly run ads about such content. Worse, there's nothing you can do about it except run ad blockers (which they in turn will use various measures as punishment for you doing so). Guess we didn't learn anything from Cambridge Analytica.
I'm trying to get more into self hosting and things like federation that can allow technical people to be admins of low-maintenance services for their friends and family.
It's a slow push but it's gonna happen. Microtransactions are stuck in deployment hell, advertisements are a deal with the devil, and this is the only third option I know of
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
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#26I reported some of those and got a response in return that I could block the item question but that it's basically green light by them, doesn't break their community standards or some wording like that. At this point I'm surprised there aren't more lawsuits coming up, this is egregious behavior that needs to be penalized fast.
This seems like the kind of thing that can be resolved by emailing a screenshot of that to zuck@fb.com with the head of the DEA on the CC list. I'm sure one of them will be happy to act.
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Prosecutors have a professional responsibility only to bring a case that has a substantial likelihood of a conviction.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#28I find it really interesting Facebook collect money from someone to run these ads, and they can continue to do that without getting into legal trouble.
When I moved countries it took 6 months for Facebook to stop showing me ads for the old country which were very clearly only supposed to be shown to people in that country. Again, people are paying money to run these ads and Facebook are clearly showing them to the wrong people.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#29Most of what’s being discussed here is naturally subjective views on propriety. Not many years ago, God forbid should one see an ad for cannabis. Even what is and is not considered a scam is quite subjective, is it not? To what extent are these platforms themselves legalised scams? Or the oh-wow-look-what-we-found false editorial strategy that most rags market.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#30There are many ads on Instagram that makes me wonder how this is legal; for example, I saw a fake site that pretended to be Marine Layer where the clothes were suspiciously cheap. I reported the ad, but they dismissed it. And don't get me started on all the "mushroom alternative", "caffeine alternative", drugs. And it's like everyone and their grandmother has their own Viagra or Hair Loss drug company now Infomercial…
I routinely see ads for scams on YouTube and report them and never hear back. Stuff like "a 19 year old invented this that saves you a hundred bucks on your power bill but Big electricity is suppressing it" Just the most bullshit claims over stock footage, things I saw debunked on Snopes 20 years ago as a literal child. It's disappointing
Its not just youtube. I unsubscribed from LA times after their email newsletter had one too many "Doctors don't want you to know about this!!!!" esque ads. Pure poison marketing. I can't believe people greenlight this crap to run on their platform. Maybe they already fired who greenlights ads.