Posted on 10/26/2022 8:48:58 AM PDT by rellimpank
Gun retailers are running ads promoting firearms for sale on Facebook and Instagram, a tech industry watchdog said Wednesday in a report that shows apparent holes in how the apps enforce their own rules against ads that promote the use or sale of weapons.
The Tech Transparency Project said in its report that it found 173 ads that it believes violate the apps’ ad policies by searching the apps’ online ad library over two weeks in August.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, prohibits ads that “promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition or explosives,” according to the company’s online rulebook. The prohibition also covers “weapon modification accessories,” such as gun sights.
But in an example from the report, a Texas gun shop bought an ad for “guns and ammo” with a photograph showing a wall of firearms. In another example, an online retailer that specializes in scopes and other gun accessories ran an ad for “optics, lasers and more.” A third example from a Kansas gun store and gunmaker showed an AR-15-style rifle.
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There are guns all over FB. And private groups for every gun you can imagine.
I am presently my sixth hour of a 24 hour stretch in Facebook jail Please don’t send any Commissary instead give it to Free Republic Freepathon!
Here in these Buckeye hills we post the box the weapon came in . When open it has a surprise in it . Lots of Glock 19 storage boxes for sale .
“Gun retailers are running ads promoting firearms for sale on Facebook and Instagram, a tech industry watchdog said Wednesday in a report that shows apparent holes in how the apps enforce their own rules against ads that promote the use or sale of weapons.”
Why are Facebook and Instagram not being criminally prosecuted for having rules against ads that promote the use and sale of weapons?
Why are they not subject to million dollar lawsuits?
I think that is the fundamental question. For platforms like FB or Instagram to ban the use or sale of a product rendering citizens defenseless, increasing crime.
How many more people are going to die because of their actions?
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