The ads are a window into a blatantly illegal underground economy that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but is actively profiting from and injecting into users’ feeds.
  • @30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    My facebook ads are almost always drugs. microdose ketamine study, psilocybin mushroom kits, CBD/THC gummies, online doctor visits for generic Lexapro…

    • ineedaunion English
      3•2 years ago

      Dang I need some of those mushrooms and ketamine microdosing.

      • @30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Mindbloom advertises ketamine microdosing. I can’t imagine that it isn’t either a scam or a honeypot.

        • EnderWi99in
          1•2 years ago

          It’s not a honeypot. It’s a genuine company. I am not sure if what they do is actually helping anyone but to my knowledge the treatments are pretty expensive.

    • EnderWi99in
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah I get a lot of those as well. Anxiety, ADHD, and autism stuff mostly. I keep shooting down the ads as I suffer from none of these things. No idea why it keeps pushing that crap.

    • @Ozymati@lemmy.nzEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      I went on Edge, logged into Facebook, then proceeded to google various horse related things and visit the resulting websits. Now my ads are all about horses. I don’t own a horse, never been especially into them. But they’re nice and inoffensive in my feed.