A smaller amount but yes, my relative with diabetes who uses FB did get scammed by an ad for a smartwatch monitoring sugar levels without an implant. Ads like these appear all the time in the feed, and political disinformation, and links to ragebait from Threads. To many people these inclusions don’t differ much visually from posts from their friends, so they don’t understand they’re not getting recommendations from equals, from whom they trust, but from a machine trying to exploit them.
A smaller amount but yes, my relative with diabetes who uses FB did get scammed by an ad for a smartwatch monitoring sugar levels without an implant. Ads like these appear all the time in the feed, and political disinformation, and links to ragebait from Threads. To many people these inclusions don’t differ much visually from posts from their friends, so they don’t understand they’re not getting recommendations from equals, from whom they trust, but from a machine trying to exploit them.