Meta’s Shocking Double Standard: Why Legitimate Legal Ads Disappear While Scam Ads Thrive on Facebook and Instagram!
The BBC aptly quoted Emily Jeffcott, an attorney for Morgan & Morgan, one of the many law firms that have been impacted by Meta’s campaign to take down social media legal liability advertisements. Jeffcott characterized the stifling move as “another example of Meta trying to control the narrative and avoid accountability.” Jeffcott also contends that “blocking the ads doesn’t make the harms go away. It just makes it harder on victims.”
What’s really happening here? Meta is running scared. It is facing an unprecedented reckoning for what it should and could have done all along – protect its most vulnerable users. In a move of duplicity as it censors legitimate ads, Meta is desperately clinging to its arbitrarily and capriciously enforced Advertising Standards. Yet, it will turn a blind eye to those Advertising Standards, its own contractual Terms of Service, and Community Standards, when doing so will protect and enhance its illicit revenue stream.
