We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them

Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by gcb0 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:25PM (#18342421)

and after having the "paid by Zuckerberg" confirmation that this was a malicious account, they didn't revoked approval of the other ads.

Triple ouch.

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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by FussyZeus on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:47PM (#18348264)

Tech company doesn't give a f#$% what it's advertising as long as it's getting paid. Film at 11.

I mean props to them for doing this to show it so blatantly, but is anyone really surprised? Nobody cares, and why should they from a business standpoint?

The only way to make something a priority is to make the consequences so harsh that you'll catch the attention of upper management.

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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:56PM (#18348338)

> Nobody cares

Obviously, FB thinks someone cares, otherwise they wouldn't be selling a tale about their efforts to improve validation of campaign ads.

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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by camillomiller on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:38AM (#18353737)

I keep getting ads in my feed disguised as CNBC ads. The image they show has a cnbc logo. If you click on them you get to a fake news website disguised as CNBC with some bogus story about criptocurrency. I reported them 3 times to Facebook and I keep seeing them.

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