Meta, Australian banks tout progress on taking down scam ads

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Meta, Australian banks tout progress on taking down scam ads
Meta has taken down some 8000 so-called "celeb bait" scam ads from Facebook and Instagram as part of a new effort with Australian banks to curb the practice. The scams use images of famous people, often generated by artificial intelligence, to trick consumers into giving money to non-existent ...

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