SAN FRANCISCO - For a week in November, Facebook and Instagram featured ads that showed cash and cryptocurrency raining down on a man at his computer. The ads asked viewers if they wanted to make a ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A warning about a Facebook ad offering a popular chocolate in bulk, perfect for the holidays. The ads are popping up all over social media. This one was offering about 20 pounds of ...

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab said on Friday it would offer an ad-free subscription option to Facebook and Instagram users in the United Kingdom in the coming weeks. The ...

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Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

You might already know that Facebook’s biggest strength isn’t the social media platform itself, but the user data it collects. The data we hand over without thinking twice is what this ...

WXIN/WTTV — As if we need a reminder to be wary of ads on Facebook and other social media, a recent report by the Wall Street Journal claims 70% of new ads posted on Meta platforms promote scams, poor ...

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has been fined NT$15 million (US$512,864) by Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) for failing to disclose key information about advertisers ...

I talked with a professor of advertising to make sense of what this means for all of us who use those social media platforms. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life ...

So, you’ve launched your ad campaign. You’ve set up your targeting, written some punchy copy, picked a catchy image or maybe a video and hit "go." A few days pass, then a week, and you’re left ...

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