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Meta projected it would earn $16 billion from scam ads.
Internal documents seen by Reuters show that the social media giant expected to make 10 percent of its overall revenue from running ads for illegal online casinos, fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, and banned medical products last year. Platform users are shown an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads every day.
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