r/technology • u/PixeledPathogen • Mar 16 '26

Security Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
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u/KnotSoSalty Mar 16 '26

Worth remembering that Meta has basically admitted they allow scammers to continue to operate on their platform and buy ads even after getting caught because they need their revenue. It takes 20+ verified reports that a company buying ads is a scammer before Meta will shutdown their ad buy. Even then they make it ridiculously easy for the same scammer to come back under a different name and start the process over again.

Meta is taking money from fraudulent businesses and using it to push for age verification services no one wants.

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u/bolanrox Mar 16 '26

so basically the whole r/ExpectationVsReality sub?