Meta won’t let some advertisers pay with credit cards anymore — and these business owners are feeling the pain.

Meta unveils new AI tools and law enforcement partnerships to fight scams on Facebook and WhatsApp after removing 159M scam ads in 2025.

The world's largest social networks have some new AI-powered fraud detection tools. Are they enough?

SAN FRANCISCO - For a week in November, Facebook and Instagram featured ads that showed cash and cryptocurrency raining down on a man at his computer. The ads asked viewers if they wanted to make a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China’s ...

Meta launches new anti-scam tools for WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger, but offers no redress for victims. Some features ...

Your conversations with Meta AI will now shape the ads you see on your Facebook newsfeed. Meta announced on Wednesday that its recommendation system will soon display ads and suggested content to ...

Meta ads are everywhere. You can see it on various social media platforms we use, including Facebook and Instagram. Some of them are scams and promote illegal products. The worst part here is that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Meta has confirmed it will collect interactions with its AI tools to ...

Scammers are constantly evolving their tactics - and so are we. Every day, criminals use increasingly sophisticated measures ...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...

On Wednesday, Meta announced that it would use conversations with its AI chatbot to tailor ads. Advertising is a core business for Meta, comprising over 97% of its revenue in 2023 and 2024. Meta AI ...