Interestingly, one of Poland’s wealthiest individuals (who has been the target of scams ranging from malicious to macabre) is now engaged in an openly declared war with Meta[1][2]. There is an entire foundation dedicated to tracking ads and identifying scams; they calculate the profits generated from these schemes and lobby for regulations that would mandate the vetting of advertisers, recently on an EU level.
Well if the rich finally decided less ads was better who are we to argue? Hopefully we can have a "I AM RICH" category on the Internet so corporations can keep targetting us with ads while sparing the poor rich people.
Well, in his case it was more of very visual fake news that he was dead, or handcuffed and arrested. Also while it started personal, at some point became an issue of “if a billionaire with positive rulings of a court and other govt institutions cannot win, who can”. Now he’s more on a crusade to stop scam on SoMe in general, not only to remove the ones about him.
I have recently reviewed a paper that referenced my own article… but the conclusion was so off, I actually went back and re-read that entire article just to be sure there was no hint to the conclusion that the author derived. There was none. Uncanny experience.
[^1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/-locker-k... [^2]: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/polish-minister-accuses-meta...
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