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The Via Rail scam card ads have been on facebook for months. You can figure out it's a scam with a 2 second google search:

https://www.facebook.com/viarailcanada/posts/scam-warning-av...

I reported it (like others in this thread), but facebook said it didn't break any rules. I requested another review, and they said the same thing, with no way for me to make any comments or replies.

Perhaps they will remove certain ads if it's instantly obvious that it is illegal, but overall they're pretty terrible at moderation.



Meta being bad at following their policies is a different problem than a platform whose policies say they won’t stop abuse. You can argue which problem is worse, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that the world should treat the two problems the same.


For the VIA thing, I have legitimately earned VIA Preference Points for surveys [0] and have heard of them being offered as survey rewards at my alma mater of Queen’s University (where VIA use is pretty heavy).

[0] https://campaign.askingcanadians.com/faq/via

So I can see some of those offers being legitimate.


The priority for regulators are money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorism, CSAM, trafficking etc.

Serious crimes where people's lives are at stake.

Scams in general are towards the bottom on everyone's priority list.


Why are you changing the focus to regulators and not meta moderation which is what you claimed that is done? (and many proved in this thread that no they don't remove content that breaks local laws).


Because company behaviour is a reflection of the laws in the places it operates.




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