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Jeff Horwitz

@jeffhorwitz
225 posts
2026-03-01
Great story from Bloomberg.  I also cannot imagine a better formula for the mass-creation of incels than saddling teenagers with crypto gambling debts.  —  www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
2026-03-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick

Drake just needed some juice.  In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.

2026-02-24
“We are about to do a bad thing as a company.  This is so irresponsible.”  — Meta content policy chief Monika Bickert in 2019 on the company's adoption of end-to-end encryption on all messages, per a filing in the New Mexico AG case.  —  www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
2026-02-24 View on X
Reuters

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement

Meta (META.O) executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps …

2026-01-01
We got Meta's “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams.  It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta's ad library through targeted scrubbing.  —  www.reuters.com/investigatio...
2026-01-01 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others

As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them.

Two countries — Taiwan and Singapore — have passed laws mandating certification.  Scam ad revenue dropped there — but held steady worldwide.  Staffers found that Meta's systems simply targeted more dodgy ads to users elsewhere:  —  “revenue was redistributed.... This would go for harm as well.”
2026-01-01 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others

As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them.

Hong Kong financial regulators pushed Meta on why it wasn't verifying the ID of financial advertisers (a very common source of scams)  —  Meta staffers boasted about how, through “skillful negotiation,” it redirected HK to organizing an anti-scam charter signing event requiring no product changes. …
2026-01-01 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others

As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them.

2025-12-15
Meta commissioned a report to look at why China was its top “scam exporting nation,” producing an outsized level of banned ads targeting foreigners.  Though a consultant flagged the company's own business practices as encouraging fraud, Meta docs blamed Chinese “cultural factors.”
2025-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China.

Oversight is so poor that Meta's partners distribute these protected Chinese Agency accounts to just about anyone.  Including me.  —  I rented one from an Official Meta Partner that openly advertises its services for “black hat” customers.  The below came from the website of a Meta “Badged Partner.” …
2025-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China.

To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers.  The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.”  —  www.reuters.com/investigatio...
2025-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China.

The system Meta has built tolerates scams on an unbelievable scale.  Beijing Tengze was one of Meta's top 200 worldwide advertisers last year, alongside brands such as BMW and Chanel.  —  The company mostly advertised scams.  We visited its supposed HQ: a fake address in a mountain farming town.
2025-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China.

2025-11-23
I've spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being.  But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta's causal findings regarding social media harm.  —  www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
2025-11-23 View on X
Reuters

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the “media narrative”

- Plaintiffs allege Meta hid product risks from users and authorities  — Meta accused of ineffective youth safety features …

2025-11-06
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.  —  That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators  —  To fine it for running scam ads.  —  www.reuters.com/investigatio...
2025-11-06 View on X
Reuters

Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.

2025-09-30
1. Great story by my former colleagues  —  2. I don't think copyright law works like that  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
2025-09-30 View on X
Wired

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos

The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.  —  OpenAI is preparing to launch …

1. Great story by my former colleagues  —  2. I don't think copyright law works like that  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
2025-09-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out

2. I don't think copyright law works like that  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : OpenAI realizes they don't have enough training data to compete with ...

2025-08-31
Yup.  And trying to adjudicate that with classifiers is ... not easy.  —  This has been a persistent problem with edge content.  In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.”  The latter two categories vastly outweigh the first.
2025-08-31 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

This has been a persistent problem with edge content.  In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.”  The latter two categories va...

A general journalism thought I've been having since jumping to Reuters: Part of responsibly covering things (tech, politics, wars, etc) is not sanitizing the details.  —  It's important that people know that the images Meta AI was/is creating are more than “provocative.”  —  My eds over here get that.
2025-08-31 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

This has been a persistent problem with edge content.  In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.”  The latter two categories va...

It does seem like a hard thing not to be aware of for months on end, yes.  —  I'm going to be curious if they do choose to shut off Meta AI's existing capacity to produce near-nude images in the next few days.
2025-08-31 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

This has been a persistent problem with edge content.  In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.”  The latter two categories va...

2025-08-30
Yup.  And trying to adjudicate that with classifiers is ... not easy.  —  This has been a persistent problem with edge content.  In addition to violating content, Meta also classifies content as “borderline” and “ambiguous.”  The latter two categories vastly outweigh the first.
2025-08-30 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez …

Lawyer who I spoke to here seemed to think this is a clear-cut case of “not fair use.”  But no celebrities wanted to comment for the story...  Obviously deepfake porn has been out there for awhile from randos.  Not sure the boundaries of the Overton window for a player the size of Meta.
2025-08-30 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez …

A general journalism thought I've been having since jumping to Reuters: Part of responsibly covering things (tech, politics, wars, etc) is not sanitizing the details.  —  It's important that people know that the images Meta AI was/is creating are more than “provocative.”  —  My eds over here get that.
2025-08-30 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez …

It does seem like a hard thing not to be aware of for months on end, yes.  —  I'm going to be curious if they do choose to shut off Meta AI's existing capacity to produce near-nude images in the next few days.
2025-08-30 View on X
Reuters

Meta created and let users create flirty chatbots and intimate images using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift and other celebs without their permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez …