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Facebook Ads Falsely Claim Jaden Smith, Rowan Atkinson Died to Promote This Very Dangerous Scam

  • Jordan Liles--Snopes.com
  • published date: 2024-04-25 18:00:00 UTC

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

In mid-April 2024, Meta the multibillion-dollar Facebook parent company accepted money from advertisers promoting false claims that American rapper and actor Jaden Smith and British actor Rowan Atkinā€¦ [+4903 chars]