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Meta is in more hot water.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 44 points 5 days ago

"listen here fella, do that 16 more times and I'll start getting upset!"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Wtf? How did they arrive at that number? Did someone senior at Meta get caught 16 times?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

How did they arrive at that number?

They kept upping it until nobody was banned.

Ok, full disclosure, I have no clue... however, this is basically what they do with scammers. If they are over 95% certain that one of their advertisers is a scam, they simply charge them more money for the assist to scam people

https://moneywise.com/news/meta-showed-users-15-billion-scam-ads-a-day-in-2024-and-earned-16-billion-from-them

Meta is evil in digital form

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you’re in IT 16 is a nice round number.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

More like a nice square number 😏

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s 2^4 so a hypercubed number 🤓

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Wait till you hear about the strike thresholds for fraud:

Per Meta's own policies, a "High Value Account" (one that spends a lot on fraudulent ads) has to accrue more than 500 "strikes" (adjudicated violations of Meta policies) before the company will take down the account.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 17 points 5 days ago

“The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teens ..."

All right. Show it.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 days ago

They can just bribe president poopy pants and all will be forgiven.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 9 points 5 days ago

The Onion could have written this article, but would have picked a lower number. 17 strikes is too implausible.