We Went Undercover in Facebook Marketplace's Deepfake Scam Pipeline: Here's What We Found
We wanted to know how bad the problem really is. Facebook Marketplace has become an everyday place for buying couches, bikes, and secondhand gadgets — but it's
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We wanted to know how bad the problem really is. Facebook Marketplace has become an everyday place for buying couches, bikes, and secondhand gadgets — but it's
Facebook Marketplace was sold to users as an easy, social-first way to buy and sell locally — a digital garage sale wrapped into the social graph. But over the
If you’ve bought a lamp, a bicycle, or a “like-new” iPhone on Facebook Marketplace in the last few years, you’ve been shopping in what feels like the world’s la
Facebook Marketplace launched as a friendly, neighborhood-style marketplace inside a giant global social network: an easy way to sell a couch, pick up a cheap c
If Facebook Marketplace were a party, it’d be the one where the hors d’oeuvres are free but the host keeps slipping your wallet out of your back pocket while pr
Something changed in 2025. What once looked like a handful of odd listings and the occasional sketchy buyer on Facebook Marketplace turned into a full-blown cri
If you still picture online fraud as elaborate Nigerian prince emails or counterfeit storefronts hidden in obscure corners of the web, think again. The scam lan
If you’ve bought or sold anything on Facebook Marketplace in the last few years, congratulations — you’ve entered one of the most active marketplaces on Earth.
You probably joined your local Facebook buy-sell group for one simple reason: convenience. It’s faster than Craigslist, more social than a classifieds site, and
If you’ve bought a couch, a phone, or an improbably cheap lawnmower on Facebook Marketplace, you’ve stepped into the most chaotic corner of social commerce: par
If you thought online marketplaces were supposed to be convenient, community-driven swaps where people flipped secondhand furniture and scored bargain electroni