Does Facebook even want to get this under control?
For several months, users on Facebook have been shown misleading advertising that results in fake news. These are so-called sponsored posts that appear as supposed excerpts from the show “The Lion’s Den”.
We have already addressed this issue several times on Mimikama, and we also know of users who regularly report this type of advertising on Facebook. But instead of Facebook suppressing this really easy-to-recognize advertising, it continues to appear regularly in many people's news streams.
Of course, you shouldn't forget that Facebook makes money from these misleading advertisements, because the platform pays well for sponsored advertisements. By the way, you can recognize advertisements on Facebook by the fact that they contain the word “Sponsored”. The following teaser, for example, is a sponsored post that is ultimately nothing more than fake news:

This screenshot is not any archive material, but was taken on November 7th, 2018. This type of advertising, which ultimately ends in a so-called “fabricated contend”, i.e. a form of fake news, is regularly decorated with still images and alleged situations from “The Lion’s Den”.
Regardless of whether it is with this teaser shown on Facebook or in other very similar cases: it is commercial fake news. After clicking on the teaser on Facebook, a website opens that presents itself in the form of a newspaper report. The website displayed is a pseudo-editorial article that is only intended to entice readers to click on the built-in advertising links. Here you will find content that has the character of a journalistic article.
By the way, nothing has changed in the method, the fake news behind it and the presentation for months, so we can repeat at this point:
Damage to reputation
This sponsored teaser on Facebook takes you to a website that claims to be the well-known newspaper “Die Zeit”. This website also plays with several well-known logos and names to create a false sense of authenticity. Spiegel, Yahoo, BILD, Focus and T-Online are directly involved here, even though they have absolutely nothing to do with it:

However, what we find here is classic commercial fake news. Since the content is completely fictitious, this is referred to as manufactured content. We therefore repeat again:
Commercial fake news contains pseudo-editorial content that has no truth and does not have to have any truth. Likewise, the content does not have to be related to the headline.
They present themselves in the form of a news website, which ultimately isn't one.
The content speaks to a desire/fear (in this case just desire).
The author doesn't care about the content, it's about displaying advertising or effectively incorporating advertising links.

Looked:
The website itself has no imprint, no data protection information or other characteristics of origin. The article on the website is about presenting a product as effectively as possible. A Bitcoin trading model is heavily promoted in the text, but also next to it and below it. In the end, this also includes a large number of supposed user comments that report on how successful this model is. What looks like a high level of positive interaction is nothing more than part of the advertising scam.
If you follow the product links that are built into the pseudo-editorial text on the website, you will end up in an affiliate sales program. In the end there is a dubious Bitcoin trade method. This means whoever wrote the pseudo-editorial article is likely to have an interest in the readership signing up to this model. It is important that the fake story sounds as credible as possible in advance, but at the same time also has a high potential for virality.
Annoying!
Facebook's filter detects every type of nipple. Facebook itself claims to be taking tough action against fake news. But Facebook can't recognize a simple, misleading advertising method that also illegitimately uses brand and product names?
Must be the money blocking the view.
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