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  • Facebook’s Ad System Went Nuts and Charged Customers for Ads No One Saw

    Facebook’s Ad System Went Nuts and Charged Customers for Ads No One Saw

    Facebook’s advertising system went haywire starting around 2 am on Sunday morning, charging marketers extra money for ads that no one saw. Reports suggest Meta, the social network’s parent company, charged some advertisers more than double what they agreed to pay, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meta briefly took part of…


  • 2022 Was a Massive Year for ‘Bad Ads’ on Google Search

    2022 Was a Massive Year for ‘Bad Ads’ on Google Search

    There’s a hell of a lot of groups violating Google’s ad policies these days. On Tuesday, Google said it stopped 5.2 billion “bad ads” in 2022, 1.8 billion more than 2021. At the top of the list are potentially malicious ads, and that number has grown tremendously over the years, according to the data.