{"id":173229,"date":"2023-12-26T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=173229"},"modified":"2023-12-26T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T12:00:28","slug":"exclusive-meta-bait-and-switch-misleading-ads-use-images-of-famous-personalities-and-names-of-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/exclusive-meta-bait-and-switch-misleading-ads-use-images-of-famous-personalities-and-names-of-media-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: How Facebook pages are misusing names of celebrities and media outlets in misleading ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

While browsing through Facebook, Alt News recently came across a post on a page named Levi Ponce containing a link to an interview featuring Aaj Tak journalist Shweta Singh. The post caught our attention due to the title, which read, \u201cA confession that surprised everyone!\u201d. It also contained a preview card to a BBC article in which Singh was quoted as saying that she was ashamed of what she had done.<\/span><\/p>\n

The headline and preview card of this post were so sensational that it prompted us to click on it. Upon opening the link, we were redirected not to the BBC\u2019s website but to a website named thirdlasagna.com which did not have any interviews. We found that the domain redirected to a crypto scam website. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alt News started looking into the page, and in its Transparency section, we discovered it had been continuously running advertisements. When we opened the Ad Library report of the page, we noticed that this page had run numerous such ads on Facebook, Instagram, Audience Network and Messenger, all containing the same format. In these advertisements, a link is promoted using the image of a public figure or personality and names of international media outlets. This page has run several advertisements using Shweta Singh’s name and picture, screenshots of which are given below. Some of these advertisements have now been deleted, but we have stored their offline versions in a file above the sheets in this article, which readers can download and view.<\/span><\/p>\n