They’re ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they’re removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.
A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.
They’re ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they’re removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.
Remember the time Signal ran an ad campaign on Facebook that told you what info Facebook gave them on you and got banned?
A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.