Why can’t FB remove all accounts tied to all scams.
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JuunlarApr 21, 2026
+43
Free market bro, chill bro, it's just a little scam bro
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DOGA_Worldwide69Apr 21, 2026
+16
Cuz then they’d delete like half of their reported accounts. The whole site is build on a house of bot cards
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SnakestaApr 21, 2026
+7
A good chunk of their revenue comes from scammers and they know it
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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EggNo289Apr 21, 2026
+3
If social media platforms removed all "inauthentic" accounts (bots, scammers, "influence industry" aka third party services used to inflate views/comments/likes/etc, and "organic marketers" aks third party services posting articles, links, etc to drive traffic and clicks for content mills, foreign influence/misinformation accounts...
Their advertising revenues would CRATER. And the pre-IPO valuations or P/E ratios would CRASH.
The entire social media "industry" is propped up by heavily inflated/falsified user metrics.
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pragueprideApr 22, 2026
+2
5 sec later…
Ben Shapiro: There has NEVER BEEN such a political attack. In a single day 99% of right leaning accounts that support Donald Trump and America were burned to the ground.
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starrpamphApr 21, 2026
+1
They absolutely can’t do that. I would bet 60% of their traffic are scammers and T-shirt bots.
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Honeycove91Apr 21, 2026
+64
Facebook doesn't actually want to get rid of the fake accounts because that's like more than 90% of their traffic at this point...
(It was the same with Elon pretending to get rid of the bots on Shitter, which he only made a thousand times worse if you've been paying any attention at all)
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AudibleNodApr 21, 2026
+51
>"Scammers frequently target immigrant populations because they are perceived to be, and often are, more vulnerable to fraud and in need of a specific type of legal assistance," Bragg wrote.
>In some instances, scammers create public Facebook accounts that mirror real accounts belonging to pro bono legal services organizations, Bragg said. In others, they create WhatsApp profiles posing as immigration lawyers associated with those same organizations, frequently using the names and logos of legitimate organizations to give the appearance of credibility.
I closed my Facebook account some years ago. Is it really that bad?
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jovial_rebelApr 21, 2026
+27
It's bloody awful
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Athena_PegasusApr 21, 2026
+13
There's nothing good about Facebook anymore, but the consumers are hooked on it like heroine and cigarettes. It's all scams, bots, imposters, trolls, ads, guerrilla marketing, foreign propaganda, domestic propaganda, ...
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KimJongFunkApr 21, 2026
+14
I wouldn’t say hooked as much as there isn’t a better platform.
I would love to quit Facebook, but many of my local groups use it to organize meetups and events. We have tried other platforms, but it’s difficult for new members to find us and join so we are stuck on Facebook until an alternative comes along.
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Earl_E_ByrdApr 21, 2026
+8
Yeah, resell groups, community groups, business pages with reviews, marketplace, even local announcements from law enforcement agencies and politicians.
Nextdoor almost had a piece of that covered, but if you try to behave too much like Facebook, people will just default back to Facebook. The fact that the previous widespread adoption of FB now makes it extremely difficult to take even a fragment of that traffic away.
There are thousands of people like me, who have not posted anything or utilized the truly "social" part of social media for over a decade, and yet we still have FB as a way to access certain info as needed.
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Li_liminal_spacesApr 21, 2026
+10
>pledged to remove imposter accounts
Pledged is the operative word. This is the "first amendment" protection type stuff Trump and Vance were squawking about before the election and here we are with comedians getting fired for insulting the president.
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ClaphappyApr 21, 2026
+11
Why aren't these companies liable? Aiding and abetting?
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AudibleNodApr 21, 2026
+12
Section 230 of the Computer Decency Act protects companies from being liable for the actions of people who use their platform. It's one of the more consequential laws that helped shape the modern Internet.
Without it, social media wouldn't exist. Neither would places like Wikipedia. Content would be managed by custodians. The elders if the internet, if you will. Your ability to comment on an article such as this would need to be vetted and approved, in much the way newspapers reviewed and published 'letters to the editor'. Companies that hosted *ANY* content would be liable for *ALL* content on through their portal.
Companies have to operate in 'good faith'. For Meta, that means they don't budge until a court order or unappealing press.
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TomcatZ06Apr 21, 2026
+4
Adding in that this is why that recent case against Meta was successful, because it focused on the features of the platforms and how they were used, not the content itself.
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sklerson89Apr 21, 2026
+3
Delete Facebook and you won't have to see any scams on there
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countofmoldycriscoApr 21, 2026
+5
A lot of schools and youth organizations (like Girl Scouts) put out info on facebook that they don't put out anywhere else. If you have kids in one of those organizations, your kids are going to miss out on opportunities if you don't check those facebook pages.
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sklerson89Apr 21, 2026
+2
Simply ask the leaders of those orgs to distribute info on other channels.
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LordMimsyPorpingtonApr 21, 2026
-1
Most local businesses and governments only release information through Facebook now.
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TPA22Apr 21, 2026
+2
Remove all the BS AI posts
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NPVTApr 22, 2026
+1
It's become so polluted with that garbage.
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Phantom_61Apr 21, 2026
+1
They need to nuke any account for an official or celebrity that is not verified.
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