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Meta knew Chinese ads were scams, kept money

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 15, 2025
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Wax figure of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Harmony Video Production / Shutterstock.com)

Meta made over $3 billion last year from Chinese advertisers pushing scams, illegal gambling, and pornography—and when an internal team started making progress against the fraud, Mark Zuckerberg had them disbanded.

According to Reuters, Meta’s Chinese ad revenue more than d…

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