Mark Cuban says Facebook knowingly profits from AI deepfake scam ads
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Mark Cuban says he gets weekly emails from elderly people who bought a fake $294 diabetes "cure" using his AI-cloned face and voice, and that Meta runs the deepfake ads anyway. He calls the platform "the worst of the worst." Meta documents reportedly show $16 billion in revenue tied to fraud, raising questions about how much the company knows and tolerates.
Facebook knows the little old ladies are getting ripped off.
- nkrisc
Make advertisers liable for the ads they run. Force them to vet ads or simply not run ads.
If Meta is accepting so many ads they can’t review them then too bad for them. Hire more people or accept fewer ads.
Ideally this will result in a complete obliteration of the ad industry with only a small number of high quality ads surviving.
- jhloa2
The amount of times I’ve reported obvious scam ads on instagram just to receive a “we found this to not be in violation of our terms” is so disheartening.
- 7373737373
Same on Google and Youtube. The CEOs and controlling shareholders should be sent straight to jail. Deliberate profiteering from crime!
- golden-face
Initially reading the title my mind thought "Cuban...Cuban defector/intelligence agent?! Oh wow I wonder what they have to reveal?"
It's Mark Cuban. Still worth reading tho. But I found my own personal reaction fascinating because I am not sure I would have clicked through if the title included the full "Mark Cuban".
- peterbecich
These companies were profitable on higher quality ads in earlier years. Does this drop in quality indicate the ad well has run dry, so to speak? Or the demands for revenue are greater, necessitating a drop in standards?
- anenefan
Yes they were doing the same is Australia ... I wouldn't know if they're still doing it here since one of the favourite scams used an Australian who took them to court. [1]
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/andrew-forrest-meta-s...
- contubernio
When a business like meta turns to scummy/scammy revenue sources it signals that their core business has serious problems.
- OsrsNeedsf2P
I worked in a team that was only tangently related to this. There are hundreds of people at Meta who knew this was going on.