Saturday, October 4, 2025

Another reason not to be on Facebook

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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