Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills (adweek.com)

According to Adweek, the next target in Facebook's efforts to keep its News Feed clean is cloaking -- a technique used by "bad actors" to circumvent Facebook's review processes and show content to people that violates Facebook's Community Standards and Advertising Policies. For example, they will set up web pages so that when a Facebook reviewer clicks a link to check whether it's consistent with Facebook's policies, they are taken to a different web page than when someone using the Facebook app clicks that same link. "Facebook product management director Rob Leathern and software engineer Bobbie Chang described in a Newsroom post how 'bad actors' -- such as those promoting diet pills, pornography or muscle-building scams -- attempt to game the social network's review processes," reports Adweek. From the report: Leathern and Chang said Facebook has removed "thousands" of offenders from its platform over the past few months, and any advertisers or pages that are caught cloaking will be banned, as well. Facebook is using artificial intelligence in its anti-cloaking efforts, expanding efforts by human reviewers to identify, capture and verify incidents of cloaking and revising its policies. Pages that are not engaging in these practices should see no impact in their referral traffic.

Comments

Re:More censorship

[theweatherelectric]

try to find it via google if you don't know the domain name.

marchongoogle.com has only existed since the 8th of August. Did they even submit the site for indexing?

As it is, searching for march on google without quotes on Google returns a YouTube video talking about it as the first result. The same search doesn't return anything related to marchongoogle.com in the first page of Bing or DuckDuckGo results (although if you switch to the video tab in DuckDuckGo it shows the same video as the first video result).

But searching for "march on google" with quotes returns the marchongoogle.com site as the first result in Bing and DuckDuckGo and the site is listed in the second page of results on Google.

So I'd suggest this is less about some kind of conspiracy and more about the newness of the March On Google website.

Re:but not fake news story that support the far ri

[AmiMoJo]

There have been several stories about Facebook cracking down on fake news, labelling links to sites like Brietbart as "disputed" or just outright fake.

In any case, I share you sentiment: fuck Facebook.