ORG's report shows that Facebook pages disguised as gaming communities are being used to target migrants with illegal services.
These findings expose a stark reality:
🔴 Even after public scandal and media scrutiny, Meta's systems are still enabling fraudsters to prey on migrants.
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Meta harvests personal data to track users' behaviour and make assumptions about them, so it can sell targeted adverts.
Surveillance-based advertising conceals a predatory marketplace behind a facade of personalisation.
This is being weaponised to deceive, divide and inflict harm, simply by disguising criminal adverts behind harmless-looking pages.
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Meta’s profiling and microtargeting means it profits from all aspects of the global migrant crisis.
Its vast surveillance-based infrastructure is also being used by the UK Home Office to target refugees with fear-based advertising to deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats.
Either way, Meta profits from stalker ads 🏧
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Previous research funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research found that Meta’s profiling tools allowed the UK Home Office to build ‘patchwork profiles’ of likely refugees.
This stitches together interests, behaviours and language categories to target them with scare campaigns.
https://www.sipr.ac.uk/news/influence-policing-published/
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To stop Meta from using the migrant crisis as a marketplace to line their pockets, ORG calls for:
⚫ A clear and explicit OPT-IN for targeted advertising.
⚫ Full transparency on how ads are targeted in Meta's public ad library.
⚫ Proper resourcing for pre-publication ad moderation — to catch fraud and harmful content before it reaches users.
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Meta must change its surveillance advertising model.
Until they do so, you can use your legal right to object to targeted adverts based on your personal data.
Use our tool to make this request (UK residents) and take control of your privacy ✊
Act Now to #StopStalkerAds ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
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