Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target...
by tdfx on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:25PM
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Yes, this reads like it was written by someone who has never run a real Facebook ad. Facebook routinely accidentally blocks legitimate advertisers from running normal, compliant ads, and there's a massive underground devoted to beating Facebook's algorithms to get non-compliant ads running. This looks like they just got lucky with a few ad sets, and since they never set them active, it looks like they might've not been approved, anyway.
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Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target...
by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:47AM
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> there's a massive underground devoted to beating Facebook's algorithms to get non-compliant ads running.
And they're extremely successful - I see several such ads every day. They vary from microdosing (using drugs is illegal here) to obvious scams. It looks FB completely got rid of manual review and decided algorithms can approve ads. And it failed spectacularly because any algorithm can be gamed by a creative human. Who is held accountable for it? Nobody. Something that has negative influence on others lives is presented as just a glitch in the system, not a result of an ethical decision "Yes, we can accept some percentage of scams as long as we maximize value from serving ads."