Tell Meta: Stop Allowing Scams and Fraud

Meta’s platforms are flooded with scams — and the company knows it.

Investigative reporting shows Facebook and Instagram are being used every day to run fraudulent ads, costing real people real money. Internal documents reveal Meta’s leadership understood how widespread the problem was, yet chose limited responses that allowed scam ads to keep spreading while focusing on managing backlash instead of stopping the harm.

Scam ads are everywhere on Meta’s platforms: fake investment schemes, phony online stores, impersonation scams targeting seniors, veterans, and small business owners. Families have lost life savings. Small businesses have been wiped out. And Meta keeps collecting the fees.

That's why we're calling on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s leadership to shut down scam advertising, fully enforce their own rules, compensate victims, and submit to independent oversight. Empty promises aren’t enough while people are still being robbed.

This isn’t a mystery Meta hasn’t solved. Investigations show the company developed internal strategies to blunt criticism and make scams harder for outsiders to detect, rather than eliminating fraudulent advertisers. Even as journalists and advocates sounded alarms, enforcement lagged and scam ads continued to run at massive scale.

The damage is ongoing. Older adults are repeatedly targeted. Entrepreneurs lose trust after being impersonated. Victims are left with no meaningful recourse, while Meta’s ad systems continue rewarding fraudsters who know enforcement is inconsistent and slow.

Meta has the power to stop this now. It can vet advertisers before ads run, permanently ban repeat offenders, refund victims, and invest in real enforcement instead of cosmetic fixes. None of this is technologically out of reach. What’s missing is the will to act.

Tell Meta: stop allowing scams and fraud. Protect users, not profits. Add your name now and demand real action.