Why Facebook Won't Remove Miracle Cure Ads

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler / Performative Regulator Habitat: Global, with particular density in developed nations where users have disposable income and grifters have access to targeting tools Diet: User attention, advertiser revenue, the gap between Community Standards and actual enforcement, and the endless supply of human hope that can be monetised Threat Level: To your wallet, your health, your understanding of reality, and the basic principle that a platform claiming to bring people together should not be simultaneously selling those people to anyone with a credit card and a misleading claim There is a number. It is 3.07 billion. That is the number of people who use Facebook every month. It is also the number of people Facebook sells access to, every month, to anyone prepared to pay for an ad account and willing to…