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.

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

sugar_in_your_tea , (edited )

Sure, but they’re under-resourced for cybercrimes. They have a lot of beat cops out giving tickets and beating up black people, but probably nobody who knows anything about credit card scams.

Local police need a readjustment of priorities and tiers of staff. Ideally we’d have:

  1. no force authorization and no weapons, can only issue citations - these would be your beat cops pulling people over, directing traffic, and responding to minor disputes
  2. detectives - no force authorization, but can investigate crimes - these show up after the crime to collect evidence
  3. armed enforcers - can arrest and use lethal force, and only show up if the first two groups can’t handle it; this is what we have today, but ideally would be a much smaller group than 1

The cybercrime division would fall under group 2, and would probably be just one or two people trained on that type of detective work.

Each tier should have a different uniform, so the public knows exactly who they’re dealing with, and each tier would be required to have body cam footage live-streamed to HQ. The first group makes up the biggest part of your force, and which is bigger between 2 and 3 depends on the types of crime that are prevalent in your area.

BakerBagel ,

It’s not a funding issue, it’s a priorities issue

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Right, and nobody is claiming they need more funding. It’s a resource issue, they don’t have the resources (i.e. people) to handle cybercrimes, so they hand it off to an org that does (e.g. FBI). They could get the resources by adjusting how they hire (e.g. in my proposal, 1 would be paid less and make up the bulk of the force, leaving more money for 2 and 3), but that’s not how they operate, so they don’t have the resources they need to investigate certain types of crimes.

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.

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

catloaf ,

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

random_character_a , (edited )
@random_character_a@lemmy.world avatar

…and also sell the information who clicks those adds ads.

TrickDacy ,

Ads*

Empricorn ,

You’re not clicking ADHD folks?

TrickDacy ,

I tried but they didn’t like it for some reason. Something about it being distracting, dunno wasn’t really paying attention

eestileib ,

If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.

But then the FBI would never do anything like that to billionaires.

eestileib ,

I’m unable to comment further.

Buuuuuuuut…

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

HootinNHollerin ,

If it were you or me they wouldn’t ask, they’d raid. Different Justice system for the rich

Greg ,
@Greg@lemmy.ca avatar

Facebook is the drug. It’s addictive, mind altering, exploits dopamine hits, isolates individuals in bad circles, makes you spend longer on the toilet etc. It’s literally the blue pill.

Alexstarfire ,

Money

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

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? 😆

TheBigBrother ,

Because they need so sell their drugs?

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@fedia.io avatar

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

PapaStevesy ,

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

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

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

TropicalDingdong ,

Gotta go to where the customers are.

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

BlucifersVeinyAnus ,

Capitalistic free enterprise is the law of the land?

technocrit ,

Only for rich people.

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