People frequently ask me why I am not on Facebook. Well, maybe not frequently. OK, one person asked me in 2024.
But I am not. One of Facebook’s lucrative revenue raisers, according to Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit organization that keeps tabs on large technology companies, is deceptive political ads. Some of these are deceptive; others downright fraudulent.
Frauds are social media platforms exceed those using text messages or phone calls. AI is exacerbating the problem.
My answer to this problem is simple: don’t even sign up for Facebook, or META, or any of those time sucks. Except this blog, of course.
A sliver of material for this post was from Steven Lee Myers, “Deceitful Political Ads Infest and Help Enrich Facebook, Analysis Finds,” New York Times, (Oct. 2, 2025), pp. B-1, B4.
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