{"id":965770,"date":"2025-10-03T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965770"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:58:29","slug":"deepfake-political-scam-ads-surge-on-meta-platforms-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/deepfake-political-scam-ads-surge-on-meta-platforms-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake political scam ads surge on Meta platforms, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are among the top political ad spenders on Meta&#8217;s platforms, using deepfake videos of American politicians &#8212; including President Donald Trump &#8212; to promote fake government benefits, a watchdog group said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit Tech Transparency Project said it identified 63 scam advertisers that collectively spent $49 million on Facebook and Instagram, often targeting seniors with ads promoting fake stimulus checks, government spending cards and healthcare payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are among the top political ad spenders on Meta&#8217;s platforms, using deepfake videos of American politicians &#8212; including President Donald Trump &#8212; to promote fake government benefits, a watchdog group said Wednesday. The nonprofit Tech Transparency Project said it identified 63 scam advertisers that collectively spent $49 million on Facebook and Instagram, often targeting seniors with ads promoting fake stimulus checks, government spending cards and healthcare payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}