3d ago

Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says

Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says | TechCrunch

These fraudulent ads purport to offer a product or service that isn't actually real, and may be intended to solicit payments from less savvy users.

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I obviously need to up my game. I don't have ANY scam revenue. WTF!
- Right?? Why taf are we being so urthicolll? We could make decent money off of magat grannies and the likes. But nooooo.
  
  but Nooooooo
Sorry folks we could prevent Grandma from fully giving into delusion, but line gotta go up.
Seems low for an American corporation.
- This only counts ad revenue from scams other people are running
That is a very humble assessment; I'd say 80% of meta's earnings are a scam.
- It guess it depends how you define scam.
propaganda ads probably make up a large portion too.

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