Scam advertising on Facebook and Instagram is not a niche problem—it’s a systemic consumer-protection risk, with cross-border impacts and real financial harm. Recently, Reuters published a series of investigations alleging that fraud and prohibited ads remain widespread on Meta’s platforms, supported by internal documents and on-platform tests. For consumer organisations
A Billion-Dollar Betrayal When Reuters revealed last week that Meta Platforms earns an estimated $16 billion per year from advertisements “clearly showing signs of being fraudulent,” it confirmed what EFRI warned about already in 2022: Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) does not protect victims of online fraud — it protects
During the past four years, the European Commission worked on legislative initiatives to upgrade the EU’s digital services rules: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Digital Services Act is aimed to establish a new set of obligations for hosting services, marketplaces, and online platforms
