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date: 2025-12-09
link: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco
title: America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
cited: Paul Krugman

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> Last month Reuters, after reviewing a cache of internal Meta documents, reported that
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> Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue -- or $16 billion -- from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
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> A cache of previously unreported documents reviewed by Reuters also shows that the social-media giant for at least three years failed to identify and stop an avalanche of ads that exposed Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's billions of users to fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos, and the sale of banned medical products.




Captured: 2025-12-09