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> there's a massive underground devoted to beating Facebook's algorithms to get non-compliant ads running. And they're extremely successful - I see several suc
by dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago
> there's a massive underground devoted to beating Facebook's algorithms to get non-compliant ads running.
And they're extremely successful - I see several such ads every day. They vary from microdosing (using drugs is illegal here) to obvious scams. It looks FB completely got rid of manual review and decided algorithms can approve ads. And it failed spectacularly because any algorithm can be gamed by a creative human. Who is held accountable for it? Nobody. Something that has negative influence on others lives is presented as just a glitch in the system, not a result of an ethical decision "Yes, we can accept some percentage of scams as long as we maximize value from serving ads."