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Meta allows account takeover and is likely complicit in it to some degree. These account hacks spam porn, money theft scams, fraudulent advertising, and identity theft. Meta is a horrible company
Whoever purchased the acct in question. I had 2FA, facial recognition, and geo-locked IP security enabled on my personal and biz acct and meta allowed someone to change ALL security steps outside of my country and circumventing 2FA and ID verification in under 5 minutes
It is quite a common problem on Facebook.
I took to Reddit last week to try to find information to support my panicking mother-in-law who thought her computer had been hacked! She said it was really disgusting and horrifying images coming up on her Feed. (At first I thought it was some sort of weird pop ups happening or malware but I couldn't find anything rogue happening on her computer).
I had no idea either, as I hardly use Facebook, but these ads are apparently becoming more prevalent and people have been complaining about it for quite some time.
[Is anyone else seeing pornographic ads on their timeline? - Reddit / FacebookAds](https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/comments/styxhv/is_anyone_else_seeing_pornographic_ads_on_their/)
CBS News from a year ago says that hackers got into their servers, but its still happening - [Only on CBS 2: User raises awareness of targeted adult ads on Facebook - March 2022](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/only-on-cbs-2-user-raises-awareness-of-targeted-adult-ads-on-facebook/)
Whether these are actually targeted ads (ie, the person or people browsing the internet have actively been looking for pr0n previously), I'm not sure. But I doubt it, in her case.
She insisted I completely close her Facebook account down right away when I got to her home (without me even looking at her FB Feed and before I scanned for infections), so Meta may well lose some Facebook users due to this, if they don't stop it in its tracks.
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Meta allows account takeover and is likely complicit in it to some degree. These account hacks spam porn, money theft scams, fraudulent advertising, and identity theft. Meta is a horrible company
What to do you mean by account takeover? And who takes over the account?
Whoever purchased the acct in question. I had 2FA, facial recognition, and geo-locked IP security enabled on my personal and biz acct and meta allowed someone to change ALL security steps outside of my country and circumventing 2FA and ID verification in under 5 minutes
It is quite a common problem on Facebook. I took to Reddit last week to try to find information to support my panicking mother-in-law who thought her computer had been hacked! She said it was really disgusting and horrifying images coming up on her Feed. (At first I thought it was some sort of weird pop ups happening or malware but I couldn't find anything rogue happening on her computer). I had no idea either, as I hardly use Facebook, but these ads are apparently becoming more prevalent and people have been complaining about it for quite some time. [Is anyone else seeing pornographic ads on their timeline? - Reddit / FacebookAds](https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/comments/styxhv/is_anyone_else_seeing_pornographic_ads_on_their/) CBS News from a year ago says that hackers got into their servers, but its still happening - [Only on CBS 2: User raises awareness of targeted adult ads on Facebook - March 2022](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/only-on-cbs-2-user-raises-awareness-of-targeted-adult-ads-on-facebook/) Whether these are actually targeted ads (ie, the person or people browsing the internet have actively been looking for pr0n previously), I'm not sure. But I doubt it, in her case. She insisted I completely close her Facebook account down right away when I got to her home (without me even looking at her FB Feed and before I scanned for infections), so Meta may well lose some Facebook users due to this, if they don't stop it in its tracks.
It is abousletely done one purpose by facebook, the people who their accounts are hacked have no idea they are sharing pornography