What Meta’s documents showed On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta

What Meta's documents showed
On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta documents showing the company expected roughly $16 billion, or about 10% of its 2024 revenue, to flow in from ads pushing scams and prohibited products. By Meta's own internal count, users across its apps were seeing some 15 billion "higher risk" ads a day — the ones with obvious markers of fraud. One late 2024 document put that category's value at about $7 billion a year.

In a May 2025 presentation, Meta's own safety staff estimated the company's platforms play a part in a third of the scams that succeed in the U.S. Before Meta bans an advertiser, its automated systems must peg the account as at least 95% likely to be running a scam, the documents say. Below that threshold, the suspected scammer simply pays more per ad and stays live.
What Meta's documents showed
On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta documents showing the company expected roughly $16 billion, or about 10% of its 2024 revenue, to flow in from ads pushing scams and prohibited products. By Meta's own internal count, users across its apps were seeing some 15 billion "higher risk" ads a day — the ones with obvious markers of fraud. One late 2024 document put that category's value at about $7 billion a year.

In a May 2025 presentation, Meta's own safety staff estimated the company's platforms play a part in a third of the scams that succeed in the U.S. Before Meta bans an advertiser, its automated systems must peg the account as at least 95% likely to be running a scam, the documents say. Below that threshold, the suspected scammer simply pays more per ad and stays live. finance.yahoo.com · source

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