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SOCIAL-MEDIA giant Facebook has been found profiting from fake ads and scams by con artists just weeks before it is due to give evidence to Parliament’s fake-news inquiry.
Currently, anyone with a Facebook page and a credit card can pay to promote a post in people’s news feeds and to target specific individuals, based on users’ activity.
Facebook’s guidelines state that adverts must not be “deceptive, false or misleading,” but users have continued to report scams promoted in their news feeds.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
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As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
