There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Alexstarfire ,

Money

catloaf ,

“Senator, we run ads.” —Mark Zuckerberg to Congress, 2018

random_character_a ,
@random_character_a@lemmy.world avatar

…and also sell the information who clicks those adds.

TrickDacy ,

Ads*

SkaveRat ,

“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”

harsh3466 ,

Came here to reply this. h/t

Rai ,

no

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

“If you guys stopped locking up my ketamine dealers, I wouldn’t have to turn to FB to buy drugs” - Zuck probably

Too soon?

bobs_monkey ,

Be this tru, for a so called “hacker,” dude sucks at the internet

ThePrivacyPolicy ,

I got an ad once for a group selling stolen credit card numbers too. I must have reported it at least a dozen times but it was always kept up and the report said it didn’t break any rules. It only got removed after I just skipped Facebook reports and reported to the police.

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Same here when I got DM’d a telegram channel for hard drugs. The user was never taken down or warned.

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

I’d be shocked if cops did anything with that. Local police are incompetent (and, to be fair, waaay under resourced) when it comes to cybercrimes. Who did you report it to?

xor ,

I guess the police at least are able to order Facebook to remove it (sounds like that’s what happened) but then yeah, as you say, I expect they will have just escalated to the county/state police, if anything

BakerBagel ,

You loval police force is probably the most well funded department of your city’s budget. It’s essentially a jobs program for your towns biggest assholes.

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

They also bring in the most revenue

otter ,

We get posts here too, and on Reddit

The posts here get reported and removed very quickly, sometimes within minutes of the account being created or the first post.

I searched Reddit for the website they were linking and saw the spam posts on Reddit have been up for months.

Few possible differences:

  • We have a better ratio of users/moderation, where the lower volume of posts means everything can go through human moderators
  • Our users are more actively trying to keep the platform good by reporting spam
  • The incentive here is to create a good online platform. The inventive there is profit. The priorities are different as a result
MajorHavoc ,

Great points.

I might add:

I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.

Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.

There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.

Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.

atrielienz ,

It isn’t just those factors. There’s also the fact that instance owners would rather moderate than get on the wrong side of the law.

TheBigBrother ,

Because they need so sell their drugs?

TachyonTele ,

Facebook coke and E. Ehhhh that’s gotta be like asking for as much fentanyl cut in as possible.

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

Eh, it’s best to assume everything has fent nowadays

Rai ,

Test kits, everybody. They’re legal and invaluable.

Rai ,

I also don’t mean to UM AKSHULLY but there almost zero reports of fent-laced MDMA or X…. Coke, definitely more.

Mobiuthuselah ,

Careful with pressies

BlucifersVeinyAnus ,

Capitalistic free enterprise is the law of the land?

TropicalDingdong ,

Gotta go to where the customers are.

If Bayer can advertise on facebook, so should too, my neighbor be allowed.

PapaStevesy ,

I’m more concerned with the drug dealers advertising on TV.

pdxfed , (edited )

Zuck and his corporation are expectedly shit; C Corp with only one motive, enrichment. Fuck Zuck and all that, but…

Congress, on the other hand, are supposed to represent the people and instead whore themselves out to the highest corporate bidders.

“Why would you do such a thing?!?” Fox #1 incredulously asked Fox #2 of his raiding of the henhouse.

Nougat ,

Unexpected factorial

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

[raises hand]
I know why.
It's because Meta is a trash hole and lives to exploit people.

Podunk ,

Shit, this winter, for 3 days strait, i got ads with literal swinging dicks and full on penetration. Reported ads, and moved on. After day three, i deleted the app and only launched from a sandboxed browser with an ad blocker.

Now, i only open it for the marketplace. The place was cancer anyhow, but that was just too much.

KaRunChiy ,

I found out that in most apps that advertise, the act of hovering on an ad and blocking it greatly increases the chance of seeing the same or similar ads

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

“Our ads are showing mouse hover metrics, increase the ad spend!”

N0x0n ,

Triggggerd ! Today’s ads are targeted and way more sophisticated than years ago. Maybe watch less porn? 😆

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@fedia.io avatar

But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.

MyOpinion ,

This actually sounds like a reasonable question to ask.

xor ,

Too little, too late, though, in classic Congress style

The Myanmar Rohingya genocide was nearly a decade ago now, and we’re somehow still at the “asking Mark nicely to do a better job of moderation” step, somehow

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Like be gives a fuck! He’s just gonna tell them what they want to hear and then he’s going back to making millions off of fakebook

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •