Facebook enables automated scams, but fails to automate the fight against them
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/facebook-enables-automated-scams-but-fails-to-automate-the-fight-aga
Scammers massively use Facebook’s advertising platform using so-called “cloakers” to evade automated checks. They would be very simple to detect but, despite announcements to the contrary, Facebook seems to tolerate them. Facebook’s targeted advertising revolutionized confidence tricks, or scams, by which a criminal convinces his (the criminals are almost exclusively male) victims to give him money in exchange for future rewards, which never materialize. Scamming is not new. Virtually all (...)
