Bank of Ireland warns of scam ads impersonating retailers and offering fake bargains – The Journal

Bank of Ireland warns of scam ads impersonating retailers and offering fake bargains  The Journal‘Game of cat and mouse’…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BankofIreland #Beware #FakeAds #fraudsters #fraudulentads #IE #Ireland #it
https://www.newsbeep.com/327549/

 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

Just over a year ago, the two ads that I saw in the most prominent spot on Facebook’s Web site–at the top-right corner–had me think for a moment that I was seeing double. They mimicked the notifications, messages and menu buttons above, a form of impersonation banned by ad-standards policies at online platforms that want to stay in business.

The “Using Meta Intellectual Property and Licenses” page, linked to from Meta’s ad-standards page, makes that much clear. The text there bans content depicting Meta user interfaces in a manner that:

Is an inaccurate depiction of the current appearance, features, or functionality of the products.

Modifies the user interface in any way, such as adding special effects, interference or animation.

Uses elements of the user interface separately or individually

Does not depict the user interface within the context of a relevant device like a mobile or desktop.

And the text of these ads–each saying I had new messages, with a link to a .shop address below–also seemed an unambiguous case of deceptive behavior. I filed a report but don’t remember what Facebook did with it and can’t check anyway, because there’s no record of my report in Facebook’s “Support Inbox.”

I do, however, know what Facebook did when I reported two new ads last week that took this deceptive template and twisted it to suggest that my Facebook account was in danger, as you can see in the image above. The response to both of my reports, received Wednesday morning: “We didn’t remove the ad.”

This should have been an easy call. Advertising policies should rank among the top rules at an advertising-supported platform–having some ads look like scams makes readers wonder how many other advertisers are trying to rip them off and pollutes the well for legitimate businesses.

(I could say the same about the garbage ads that keep crawling out of the programmatic-advertising cesspool, but that’s another post.)

But while I’m dismayed to see Facebook trip over its own shoelaces this badly, I am not susprised. So much of the user experience on that platform now–the incessant suggestions that I join groups and follow pages tangentially related to my interests, the increasingly ad-dense layout of my feed, the chaotically-sorted algorithm that reveals friends were in town days after they left, the scattershot “People You May Know” suggestions–speaks to no higher priority than trying whatever might momentarily push #engagement.

Inconveniently enough, Facebook remains the leading place online for me to see what most friends and family are up to, followed more or less by Instagram. So this company continues to get its chances to monetize my eyeballs.

I can, however, choose where I try to promote my own work. And Facebook left that list years ago, because of the reasons above and because of this company’s history of rug-pulling newsrooms. My public page that once seemed like a valuable bit of reader outreach might as well be covered in cobwebs; I last posted anything there in April, a link to a PCMag story about Meta’s content-moderation machinery running amok that closed with a reminder to look me up on Patreon. These days, I can’t even be bothered to delete the scam notifications on my page from fraudsters impersonating Facebook support staff.

In other words: Don’t even think of suggesting that I put more time into Threads.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/03/facebook-ad-standards-look-like-yet-another-area-where-meta-has-lowered-its-standards/

#advertisingPolicies #advertisingStandards #engagement #facebook #FacebookAds #fakeAds #meta #onlineAds #rules #scamAds