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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons

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Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons

www.404media.co

@CriticalMiss to

TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

The ads are a window into a blatantly illegal underground economy that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but is actively profiting from and injecting into users’ feeds.

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Did you miss the part where the ads were offering things like stolen credit card info and unregistered firearms, too?

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