Here is a link to the actual report which the article is discussing: https://au.reset.tech/uploads/resettechaustralia_profiling-children-for-advertising-1.pdf h

Here is a link to the actual report which the article is discussing: https://au.reset.tech/uploads/resettechaustralia_profiling-children-for-advertising-1.pdf https://au.reset.tech/uploads/resettechaustralia_profiling-c... In the report it states the ads were not run. I’m pretty anti-Facebook anything, but this feels like an attack aimed to generate anti-Facebook headlines off the back of their flawed methodology. I find the idea that any company is going to ‘exploit’ the capability to purchase advertising in $5 batches to target 13 - 17 olds with products such as cigarettes, vapes and gambling a little far fetched. Particularly for any company licences to sell said products. Maybe middlemen / affiliates, but even then the cost associated with creating facebook advertising accounts for such small budgets doesn’t seem cost effective. It seems like their methodology has been deliberately chosen ($5, non-branded, trademarkless adverts) to avoid automated filters by flying low. If they did run, they’d likely to be flagged by human users, escalated for moderation and removed. It comes off very calculated.