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Real documents, wider bucket

The fraud-only figure in the same documents is $7 billion.

“Meta documents reveal US$16 billion in fraud-linked revenue, and Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads.”

Moneywise headline syndicated on Yahoo Finance, quoting Mark Cuban on a podcast, 7 October 2026

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Issue 666 November 20263 min
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Reuters did report a $16 billion internal projection in November 2025.

The twist

it covers scams and banned goods, Meta calls it overly inclusive, and the documents put clear-fraud ads at about $7 billion a year.

16 billionUS dollars Meta projected from ads for scams AND banned goods
7 billionUS dollars a year Meta's documents put on the narrower category of ads with clear signs of fraud
95%Certainty Meta's systems need before banning a suspected scam advertiser

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Say this in tomorrow's meeting“The $16 billion is a year-old Meta projection covering scams and banned goods. Its own fraud-only figure is $7 billion a year. Still huge, and Meta only bans at 95% certainty.”

Receipts

  1. Supports finance.yahoo.com: Mark Cuban says Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads as Meta docs reveal $16 billion in fraud-linked revenue
  2. Supports finance.yahoo.com: Facebook knows the little old ladies are getting ripped off
  3. Supports finance.yahoo.com: Those ads are deepfakes built with an AI copy of his face and voice, Cuban said, and Meta (NASDAQ:META) runs them anyway
  4. Context finance.yahoo.com: On Nov. 6, 2025, Reuters reported on internal Meta documents
  5. Context finance.yahoo.com: Moneywise reached out to Meta for comment
  6. Context web.archive.org: Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods
  7. Context web.archive.org: Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue
  8. Refutes web.archive.org: Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year
  9. Supports web.archive.org: the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud
  10. Refutes web.archive.org: The company had later determined that the true number was lower, because the estimate included
  11. Context web.archive.org: He declined to provide an updated figure
  12. Context san.com: The ads reportedly promote fraudulent e-commerce and investments, illegal online gambling and the sale of banned medical products
  13. Refutes san.com: was a rough and overly inclusive estimate rather than a definitive or final figure
  14. Context web.archive.org: Meta has estimated that around 10% of its overall annual revenue, equating to around $16 billion, comes from scam advertising, and/or promotions for banned goods
  15. Context finance.yahoo.com: the podcast hosted by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
  16. Context web.archive.org: Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the documents seen by Reuters

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