Americans lost over $16B to scams in 2024 as social media–driven fraud surges. Explore FTC and FBI findings, Meta’s role, and ...

Meta Platforms (META) shares fell about 1.4% on January 2, after a report raised new concerns about how the company handles scam ads on Facebook and Instagram. The drop followed a Reuters ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta knows Chinese scammers are bilking users out of billions of dollars – but has allowed them to keep operating rather than risk its profits, according to an explosive report. In ...

Social media giant Meta expected about 10 percent of its 2024 revenue, roughly $16 billion, to come from running ads for scams and banned goods, according to internal projections reported by Reuters.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, calculated that over $3 billion of its Chinese-funded ad revenue came from scams. Around 19% of the money generated by advertising from Chinese ...

A new examination of internal company records has raised fresh questions about how much Meta benefited financially from fraudulent advertising, particularly from China-based clients pushing illegal ...

A sweeping Reuters investigation has put a price tag on Meta’s tolerance for ad fraud: billions of dollars a year. For Rob Leathern, a former Meta executive who led the company’s business integrity ...

A joint operation by Meta and law enforcement authorities from 10 countries has taken down 150,000 scam accounts and nabbed ...

Meta unveils new AI tools and law enforcement partnerships to fight scams on Facebook and WhatsApp after removing 159M scam ads in 2025.

The tech giant says the new features are designed to alert users before they engage with something suspicious.

Google, Meta and Amazon Join Global Pact to Fight Rising Online Scams ...

Facebook now accounts for the vast majority of scams on social media, according to an explosive new study — and critics claim it’s because Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant is more focused on making money ...