Other scams fabricated that Gayford performed a prank that “led to tragedy”, while more fake ads and stories claim to present an article about a “deleted” Gayford interview. Meta has been approving ads from scammers who are running fake news stories to act as a window for Bitcoin scam. At the time the Herald searched Meta’s ads library records on June 12, there were hundreds of scam ads that had been approved and were active, with the latest scam ads approved by Meta as recently as June 16. The ads approved are fake news stories that were generated by scammers. In 2022, Australia’s competition watchdog filed a lawsuit against Meta alleging the social media giant failed to prevent scammers using its platform to promote fake ads featuring well-known people.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 19, 2024 21:41 UTC