"Fake" watches for £30 - why does facebook allow these ads

[topr8]

This morning there was an ad on my facebook newsfeed page:

Rolex Watches from £30 ... i won't put the link or name the landing page itself.

Obviously these are fake and obviously the text of the ad is known to facebook, why are they not doing more to stop this kind of behaviour?
surely it can be done.

and the bigger question i believe is that these social media companies (and se's) claim they can't do much about these ads, as they use algorithms.

however either they need to start programming better or, as they all make large profits, they surely need to invest in actual people checking more of these ads.

[keyplyr]

IMO it would not be cost effective for humans to OK every ad published at FB. However, as AI becomes more multitask and the range of use broadens, the quality of ads should improve. FB is relatively new at this.

What irks me is just yesterday I received a notice that FB is blocking me from posting to Groups for 7 days. It seems one of my posts that included a link to a page of mine went viral and resulted in approx 9k users leaving FB to visit my site.

But I only posted the link a couple times. Why should I get penalized? Obviously this triggered some filter and the resulting action is non-human. Protesting the penalty might bring unwanted attention to my account so I'll just keep quite and enjoy the extra traffic.

But it's another example of things that aren't ready for the public being prematurely put into affect.

[tbear]

why are they not doing more to stop this kind of behaviour?

The same reason they do nothing about other despicable behaviours on their sites, I guess. I believe that their argument is that they should not be held responsible for anything posted. They simply offer a platform for the posts.

Can't agree with that, myself........

Seems to me that the creators of these sites, along with their current owners/investors, don't see such 'cleaning' as part of their brief. I'm sure these problems were never thought of, back when they came up with their wonderful ideas. I mean, who would have thought that con artists, terrorists, (dark side) politicians, etc, would think to take advantage of unguarded open doors........

[engine]

topr8, perhaps get Action Fraud involved [actionfraud.police.uk...]

Alternatively, here's Facebook's Counterfeit Report Form [facebook.com...]

But, yes, it's obviously not a Rolex at that price. It's beyond me how anyone thinks it's real.

[Marshall]

I have frequently click on the Report Ad links when I see something that is obviously wrong, though I am probably an exception. In the end, it comes down to something I said in the thread about misspelled ad links: it falls on the consumer to take action. As long as people are willing to buy knock offs, they will continue to proliferate.