Report Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Scam Medical Ads on Facebook
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Teddy Rosenbluth
1mo ago· 2 min readenNews
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Summary
A new report reveals that Facebook is hosting hundreds of thousands of scam advertisements for medical products, including illegal or dangerous items. The article highlights a specific example of a German-language ad falsely claiming a supplement can cure diabetes in two days, allowing users to stop taking prescribed medication like Metformin. The report underscores Facebook's ongoing problem with moderating health-related scam content on its platform.
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Finally, I was able to abandon Metformin which I had been taking for five years.
A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed dangerous.
A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed dangerous.
