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
#2Anecdotally, I get Instagram ads for "buy mdma online" all day, every day.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#3I 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.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#4Anecdotally, I get Instagram ads for "buy mdma online" all day, every day.
I’ve continually gotten magic mushroom gummy advertisements
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#5Not a huge surprise considering their position on CP and the abusive conduct that occurs on their platforms.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#6Advertising 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.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#7As many others have stated, I've reported all kinds of sketchy drug sales to FaceBook and been told they won't do anything about it. I'd love to see them raked over the coals for this.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#8There 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
Infomercials for millennials, I suppose.
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#9https://archive.md/D4EnE
edit: hm, maybe this isn't working for the full articles on WSJ anymore...
Re: Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
#10There'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.