Over the past few years, YouTube has been hit with a series of cryptocurrency scams. In 2020, the company faced at least 18 lawsuits over it.

Fake adverts featuring celebrities and public figures remain the most common type of scam adverts appearing online, according to new figures from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Data from ...

Scam ads on Facebook have evolved beyond the days of misspelled headlines and sketchy product photos. Today, many are powered by artificial intelligence, fueled by deepfake technology and distributed ...

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 ...

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents ...

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 ...

Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them. In a lengthy report, Reuters ...