Meta Throttles 404Media Investigation on Drug Ads, Continues to Advertise Drugs

Re:Meta Throttles 404Media Investigation on Drug Ads, Contin... by morkalork on Friday August 25, 2023 @11:22AM (#37262737)

Yowza, that link to the ad library really does work. Filtering for Canada it took about a minute to find an ad for a telegram channel that's been active for a year, claiming to sell glocks. Is it real? A scam? A honey pot? None of what is being offered is remotely legal here.

Edit: Looks pretty real. He posts vids from his customers showing successful deliveries. Appears to be operating out of Toronto? Maybe one day the cops will figure out how to use a computer and do some actual detective work.

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Re:Meta Throttles 404Media Investigation on Drug Ads, Contin... by dchung333 on Friday August 25, 2023 @11:48AM (#37263069)

I've seen some on Instagram ads that are essentially human trafficking schemes pretending to be modeling and talent agencies. It's kind of dark and depressing.

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Re:Meta Throttles 404Media Investigation on Drug Ads, Contin... by idkyall on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:13PM (#37263395)

Yeah, I've reported a few ads for drugs that have shown up on marketplace. I usually don't hear back, and actually in one case they responded saying the content was fine. Facebook ads seem to really be fairly lawless, I'm not convinced there's actually a human in the loop even after reporting.

Here's an ad for a Bitcoin doubling scam, complete with "Tesler" instead of "Tesla", and including a pic of Elon Musk: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?id=308770845058112

Plenty of other scams are freely advertised as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/16/crypto-sc...

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