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Political violence is a big earner for Meta. In the 10 weeks after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in July, advertisers paid between $593,000 and $813,000 for political ads on Facebook, according to reporting by @themarkup and @CALMatters. “There’s huge problems with their advertising broadly,” said Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project. “They’re profiting off of a lot of harmful things, really without any sort of repercussions.”

https://themarkup.org/investigations/2024/10/04/how-meta-brings-in-millions-off-political-violence

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