RE: https://tenforward.social/@gareth/116211433966190423

I get requested to do a thing. I do a thing. See below.

#StarTrek #DS9 #StarTrekAds #FakeAds #DeepSpace9 #StarTrekMemes

Google Ads to enforce mandatory verification for financial services ads in Malaysia from 14 April #apps #digitallife #fakeads #featured #financialscam #financialservicesverification #google #googleads #news #scam #scamads #youtubeads

https://soyacincau.com/2026/03/11/google-ads-mandatory-verification-financial-ads-in-malaysia/

 Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud - Radio Sweden

｢ The reason is fake ads published on Facebook that use the names of well known Swedish media companies and journalists, that scam Swedes out of money ｣

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedish-publishers-file-police-report-against-metas-zuckerberg-for-fraud

#meta #sweden #fakeads #ai

"From unstoppable slop, to “enshittification”, to a digital world peopled by automatons, all of these ideas have a useful explanatory power. None, on its own, sufficiently captures the problem. The internet suffers from a cluster of disorders, some with overlapping symptoms and causes. I’m interested in uniting them all under a bigger tent, one that accounts for their similarities and for the role of human decision-making in bringing us to our current predicament.

Borrowing from the world of public architecture, I think of it as the “hostile internet”. Through deliberate choices, and some unintended consequences, the architects of the current consumer internet have created a thoroughly commercialised, surveilled and authoritarian space where basic functions are seconded to the extractive appetites of the monopolies overseeing the system. And it’s making us miserable.
(...)
Like the Moynihan Train Hall, today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses which, to put it loftily, are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities — and their second-order social effects — in proportion with their billion-person user bases. The hostile internet is a witch’s brew of explanations for how one of humanity’s most important inventions has produced so much simultaneous prosperity, inequality, disruption and social upheaval.

The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner."

https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #OpenWeb #HostileInternet #OnlineScams #FakeAds

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.”

#nz #fakeads #facebookprofittering #facebookfakecomplianceprocess #fakereviews

https://iamnotadoctorbut.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/scam-facebook-ads-targeting-media-trust-rnz-news/

#facebookfakecomplianceprocess #facebookprofittering #fakeads #fakereviews #nz #scams

Social media flooded with fake news alleging to be from media outlets

Social media flooded with fake news alleging to be from media outlets | RNZ News

Social media users have, in recent weeks, been inundated with posts alleging to be sharing RNZ news stories.

From Prime Minister Christopher Luxon allegedly saying goodbye to New Zealand after shocking events to poorly edited photos claiming to show Guyon Espiner with the police, the posts all share completely fictitious headlines made to look as though they come from the RNZ website.

#fakeads #fakenews #nz