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Bad Ads: Targeted Disinformation, Division and Fraud on Meta’s Platforms
This report lays out clear evidence of how Meta enables bad actors to use its targeted advertising system to manipulate elections, spread disinformation, fuel division, and facilitate fraud.
This report lays out clear evidence of how Meta enables bad actors to use its targeted advertising system to manipulate elections, spread disinformation, fuel division, and facilitate fraud. Despite Meta’s public assurances that it does not allow disinformation, voter suppression, hate and division, or fraudulent adverts on its platforms, the case studies in this report demonstrate it consistently enables these harms. Without legal or regulatory intervention, these threats to democratic integrity, public safety, and social stability will persist, and citizens globally will continue to be deprived of the right to a reality that is not shaped by opaque, targeted advertising systems available for hire by bad actors.
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