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Snopes— Meta, the owner of Facebook, accepted money for ads displaying the death hoaxes. People who clicked the ads were taken to predatory scam pages.

dotesports.com—Razer ordered to cough up refunds after false N95 claims. No, it wasn't Bane suing Razer.

KLFY—Eye on Scams: Rental scams. Consumers are reporting being tricked by rentals that don’t materialize.

Engadget—Google prohibits ads promoting websites and apps that generate deepfake porn. Google has updated its Inappropriate Content Policy to include language that expressly prohibits advertisers from promoting websites and services that generate deepfake pornography. While the company already has strong restrictions in place for ads that feature certain types of sexual content, this update leaves no doubt that promoting "synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be sexually explicit or contain nudity" is in violation of its rules.  Any advertiser promoting sites or...