NEW: Meta earns millions from deceptive political ads.
We found over 100,000 deceptive US political & social issues ads across +200 FB pages. Some pages falsely claimed to be run by the gov and the ads were rife with deepfakes & false claims.
Story & 🧵: www.propublica.org/article/face...
Despite Meta's stated commitment to crack down on harmful content, it failed to catch tens of thousands of ads that used false claims and deepfakes of political figures to collect users’ sensitive per...
