Stephen Dubner

They reportedly show their users about 15 billion scam ads a day.

What would you suggest be done about that?

And how hard would that be for them?

How hard would that be for Facebook, for instance?

So if you were speaking right now to Mark Zuckerberg and not me, what would you say?

What kind of things did you miss?

We reached out to Meta to confirm the Reuters reporting we mentioned.

They said, quote, aggressively fighting scams is one of our top priorities.

And that last year alone, we took down 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to criminal scam centers.

I'd like to say thanks to all our guests today, Marty D'Lima, Katie Daffin, and Mark Frank.

And thanks especially to you for listening.

If you want to let us know what you thought about this episode, our email is radio at freakonomics.com.

If you have a scam story you'd like to tell us, we'd love to hear it.

Coming up next time on the show, our friends from the Search Engine podcast drop by to teach us about the history of the self-driving car.

And the political fights around the legalization of self-driving cars.

That's next time on the show.

Until then, take care of yourself.

And if you can, someone else, too.

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