Researcher
Analysis of the Fraud Ecosystem of Online Advertising on Meta Platforms
The ÖIAT analyzed Meta's Ad Library over three months and found 634,000+ fraudulent or problematic ads shown more than 1 billion times across the EU (123M in Austria). Illegal gambling (~450,000 ads), investment fraud (83,216) and dubious food supplements (27,171) dominated the sample.
By Valentine Auer, Lena Müller-Naendrup and Natalie Trell
