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What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud - Slate News

What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud - Slate News

Update: 2025-11-16
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The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point, it’s more an interdependence with scammers.


Guest: Jeff Horwitz, tech reporter for Reuters.


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What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud - Slate News

What Next: TBD | How Meta Profits Off Fraud - Slate News