<story><title>Facebook&apos;s advertising integrity chief leaves company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-executive-idUSKBN2962M6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>absolutelyrad</author><text>&amp;quot;Chief of Advertising Integrity&amp;quot; does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it&amp;#x27;s CEO himself has no integrity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t find it now, but I remember a story from somebody in the Lean Manufacturing world about a place that was having safety problems, so they appointed somebody Safety Director. This signaled to everybody that safety was that one guy&amp;#x27;s problem, not theirs. Accidents went up further and stayed up until they got rid of the Safety Directory position and made everybody responsible for safety.&lt;p&gt;That resonated for me because I&amp;#x27;ve seen that happen in software, that classic pattern where cowboy coders ship garbage to QA. The lowest bug rates I&amp;#x27;ve seen are where everybody cares about quality.&lt;p&gt;With Facebook, I expect that &amp;quot;Chief of Advertising Integrity&amp;quot; is sort of light a lightning rod. The job is not to solve the problem, it&amp;#x27;s to take the hits.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s advertising integrity chief leaves company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-executive-idUSKBN2962M6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>absolutelyrad</author><text>&amp;quot;Chief of Advertising Integrity&amp;quot; does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it&amp;#x27;s CEO himself has no integrity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>I mean, &amp;quot;Advertising Integrity&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Facebook&amp;quot; shouldn&amp;#x27;t appear in the same sentence. Amazon is bad enough with fake reviews and retailers that ship terrible products when advertising them as something better.&lt;p&gt;So it takes a lot to make me think something is worse and meaner to consumers than Amazon. But sure enough, Facebook is it. Their ads are about 60% complete scams, from what I can tell. I get all these ads for $200 Lego sets for $30! And there are hundreds of comments from people who have bought. Guarantee they all got 1 Lego brick in the mail 8 weeks later, and the site that sold it to them is gone.&lt;p&gt;This would be bad if it was an occasional thing, but most Facebook ads I see are EXACTLY like this. Bait and switch. They send you a thing so you can&amp;#x27;t claim they didn&amp;#x27;t send you anything, but Facebook is making bank off of these dishonest scammers and seems not only not to care, but to encourage it. Oh and the thing they send you is from China, so sending it back costs more than you spent.</text></comment>