Kristen Ruby

Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta. Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone The China case study: • In 2024, Meta made $18B+ from Chinese companies advertising to foreign consumers • Internal teams found ~19% was scams/banned content • An anti-fraud team successfully cut these ads in half • When Zuckerberg saw the revenue impact, he told them to "pause" and the team was disbanded • By mid-2025, banned ads climbed back to 16% of China revenue • This results in money being stolen and going directly from ordinary Americans to Chinese criminals The deliberate enabling: • Fraud earns 10% of all revenue, but anti-fraud teams were blocked from any action costing >0.15%, so they couldn't effectively do anything • Meta charged higher rates for suspected fraudulent ads — a "scam tax" • Their algorithm naturally identifies people vulnerable to frauds and feeds them more and more The cold calculation: • Meta anticipated up to $1B in regulatory fines for this • But they make $3.5B every 6 months from high-risk ads • They view these fines as just "cost of doing business" Senators Blumenthal & Hawley now calling for FTC/SEC investigations in a blistering letter, noting that all this happened while Meta cut safety staff and moved billions over to VR and AI. WTF.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.

I call on Congress to open a federal investigation into the deceptive AI practices of @Meta. Meta is deploying automated denials at scale stripping rights owners of the ability to control the exclusive use of their own marks. I call on Congress to review: 1. All of my emails to Meta for the past six years pertaining to IP enforcement. 2. All American citizen submitted user reports to Meta pertaining to IP enforcement of registered marks. 3. The number of valid IP claims Meta denied through a system of automated AI denials. 4. All classifiers used for automated IP denials by Meta. 5. If this system was trained in accordance with The Lanham Act. 6. If Meta has a vested interest in aiding and abetting infringing accounts despite actual notice from rights holders and if this constitutes a material misrepresentation to regulators and investors.