{"id":289353,"date":"2025-11-29T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289353\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:01:08","slug":"facebook-owner-meta-accused-of-letting-ai-sellers-run-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289353\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers &#8216;run rampant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Brown, who works in tech marketing, said she reported the company to Meta but never got a response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has now stopped operating, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61572995090409\/videos\/612633041936828\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a message on Facebook, external<\/a> stating life had &#8220;taken a devastating turn&#8221; because of the death of a partner, an almost identical statement used by fake Birmingham jewellery business C&#8217;est La Vie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It makes me feel really cross, because I hate people being scammed and the websites are the kind of thing you would share with a friend,&#8221; Claire added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a real lack of protection here for consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another Facebook user, Stuart, said he had reported a number of suspicious companies to the platform but was advised to &#8220;influence the ads that you see by hiding ads and changing your ad preferences&#8221; in its response. No other action was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Brown, who works in tech marketing, said she reported the company to Meta but never got a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-289353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}