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by bluecalm 401 days ago
I tried to report a FB page of obvious car (campervan) thieves: no address, name, telephone numbers only visible on the photo (so it's more difficult to scrap/automatically detect). A lot of made up testimonials with hidden comments. The company was supposedly registered in my country but there is no way to check if it exists (we have national public registry of all companies) as no relevant data is provided. I came across the website when someone from another country not speaking my language asked me about the page and if it's legit.

FB doesn't care. There is no way to tell them what the report is about (only that it somehow violates "community standards") and they don't care to check if the company even exists.

The only thing they are battling is negative PR as they don't care to take even baby steps to prevent literal thieves advertising on their service.

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I don't think users really care either, as they keep using the platform. We're long past the point where I thought people would get out of the obvious cesspool they were swimming in, but it hasn't happened.
Lock in is a real thing. I dropped the friend feed because of app spam, I stopped using marketplace because of scams, but I'm still on Facebook because 99% of the organisations and groups I need or want to be a member of use it and trying to move communities off platform just results in split communities unfortunately.
After reporting 1 or 2 scams, I wondered "Why am I doing Zuck's work for him? I should just let the scammers be, so everyone can see what festers on his rotten creation."

Heh, not that he gives a shit, the stinking pile bought him a $900K watch, amongst other things.