If Meta is accepting so many ads they can’t review them then too bad for them. Hire more people or accept fewer ads.
Ideally this will result in a complete obliteration of the ad industry with only a small number of high quality ads surviving.
I see obviously scummy ads on Apple News and now I see ads on Apple Maps as well. Ads are a bane on society - even accounting for free/cheap access to information we get in return.
Need a flashlight for jacking deer? Just got to click now.
It's Mark Cuban. Still worth reading tho. But I found my own personal reaction fascinating because I am not sure I would have clicked through if the title included the full "Mark Cuban".
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
This is nothing new, profiting off of fraud and abuse has been the name of the game for all the big advertisers from the beginning.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/andrew-forrest-meta-s...
[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
I think the key part worth emphasizing is that sites with zero moderation don't need Section 230. Section 230 is what gives you the option to start having some moderation (e.g. banning spammers) without suddenly becoming liable for everything all of a sudden.
So abolishing Section 230 means erasing most of that moderate middle, leaving us with either pure-chaos sites, sites which make you sign a painful legal contract before you can comment, or sites that block all comments and only let you "like" things.
If you're earning almost 200 billion dollars a year directly from the posting of a certain type of content, you can afford basic moderation to avoid obvious scams and fraud.
> Jeff Bezos backs a platform that lets anyone invest in rental homes for as little as $100 — 6 ways to build wealth like a landlord without actually being one
I could LLM this up but eh. It won't actually convince Googlers to do the right thing so it'll just stay a terrible idea.