Stephen Dubner

Why has it been slow?

So you said there are some countries that do more than others.

What are some countries that do less than others?

I thought you were going to point to, you know, Myanmar and Thailand.

The Federal Trade Commission, in addition to targeting the scammers themselves, is also paying more attention to the other players in this ecosystem.

Here is Katie Daffin again.

Regulators in the UK and Australia are pushing a more aggressive idea.

They want to make the platform and telecom firms share legal responsibility for stopping scam messages before they land.

Last year, Reuters reported that leaked documents from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, show that 10 percent of Meta revenue comes from running ads for scams and banned items.

We asked Katie Daffin if the FTC would bring charges against Meta.

I asked Marty DeLima about this, too.

So when I look around at the ecosystem that the scammers use, it looks like Meta and Facebook is a pretty big platform.

It almost feels like it's the perfect silent partner in the scamming ecosystem.

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.