https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/531305/scam-facebook-ads-targeting-media-trust

Several ads report the death of Chris Hipkins – though on the bright side for the very-much-alive Labour leader, they also name him as one of our “most beloved New Zealanders” in defiance of his preferred prime minister polling.

If you’re wondering why these fake ads have been allowed to mushroom without any apparent intervention, you’re not alone. People have been complaining about the tsunami of literal fake news for months.

Dylan Reeve, a freelance writer and editor, has catalogued hundreds of the ads and reported them to Facebook’s parent company, Meta.

The responses are generally boilerplate. They tend to arrive after exactly seven days. Reeve suspects the ads are getting to the end of a queue and then falling off without anyone taking action.

He says Meta has the resources to better moderate these ads, but it chooses not to employ enough real people to do the work.

“Facebook could hire someone with the ability to spot a fake ad and spot it before it gets run. They say they do an approval process before ads get placed but what that is is a mystery.”

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