Meta faces criticism from Britain's financial watchdog for failing to curb illegal ads promoting risky financial products on its platforms. Despite commitments, a significant number of unauthorized ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China’s ...

Americans lost over $16B to scams in 2024 as social media–driven fraud surges. Explore FTC and FBI findings, Meta’s role, and ...

Meta's ad machine is under fresh scrutiny after internal projections suggested that a double digit share of its 2024 revenue could be tied to scams and banned products, a slice of business worth tens ...

Meta unveils new AI tools and law enforcement partnerships to fight scams on Facebook and WhatsApp after removing 159M scam ads in 2025.

Meta ads are everywhere. You can see it on various social media platforms we use, including Facebook and Instagram. Some of them are scams and promote illegal products. The worst part here is that the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a week in November, Facebook and Instagram featured ads that showed cash and cryptocurrency raining down on a man at his computer. The ads asked viewers if they wanted to make a ...

Meta launches new anti-scam tools for WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger, but offers no redress for victims. Some features ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — That “easy money” or “rapid weight loss” ad in your social feed may actually be a scam. A recent Reuters investigation alleges that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and ...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...