The GAFAM War For years, GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft) has been waging...

Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230B last week. A record daily loss for a US firm. Its shares fell 26.4% after quarterly figures disappointed investors. Meta also said that Facebook's daily active users (DAUs) had dropped for the first time in its 18-year history and fell to 1.929B in the three months to the end of December, compared to 1.930B in the previous quarter.

Google, like Meta (previously known as Facebook), has been massively criticized for making a lot of money from advertising scammers. The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued 1,200 warnings in 2020 about scams made by fake companies on Google and social media platforms. Consequently, in August 2021, Google UK & Ireland re-regulated the advertising of financial offers, allowing only FCA-regulated firms to advertise financial services, including crypto ads. On the other hand, on Google DE, fraud scheme operators can still buy ads without any restrictions.

In December 2020, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought to break up Meta and to unwind acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. Unfortunately, Judge James E. Boasberg found that FTC had not plausibly supported its case, and thus could not proceed. Under the new chair Lina Khan FTC re-filed with more evidence and now the case has been approved for trial. But now TikTok is the new champion. In 2021, it was the most visited website in the world.

The Mark Zuckerberg company Meta is the operator of the two most prominent social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram. It is well-known that Facebook is a fake news platform and happily promotes scams. Facebook puts itself at the service of cybercriminals if they pay! It's all about money. Recently, scammers promoted the fraudulent Meta Token ICO via Facebook ads. Now the Starling Bank boss Anne Boden boycotts the Meta prostitution. Respect!