Scam ads on Facebook have evolved beyond the days of misspelled headlines and sketchy product photos. Today, many are powered by artificial intelligence, fueled by deepfake technology and distributed ...

Fake adverts featuring celebrities and public figures remain the most common type of scam adverts appearing online, according to new figures from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Data from ...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...

Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them. In a lengthy report, Reuters ...

The surge in social media-enabled scamming has led to authorities calling on the companies operating them to step up their ...