Immagine “Deep Fake” di David McWilliams usato per ingannare gli utenti dei social media, afferma il commentatore
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/09/08/deep-fake-image-of-david-mcwilliams-used-to-dupe-social-media-users-says-commentator/
di qwerty_1965
13 commenti
Anyone who has watched it is clear it’s a scam even if the advert looks like him doing it. You really should have some kind of carer watching you if you genuinely believe you can make money from it
“With a €200 euro investment you get back €40000 a month”
aye pal that’s why you’re advertising it in a 20 second YouTube advert
What am I to believe anymore, was breakfast role man real?
It’s not even his voice in the YouTube ad. It’s been dubbed over with a British accent
Whatever about not holding social media companies directly liable for what is posted on their websites, I find it hard to see the justification in not holding them directly liable for what they put in front of users as paid advertising.
If as Instagram or Twitter you take money to promote a scam, and then put it in front of vulnerable people (who you are targeting) then the law should absolutely hold you liable for that.
Until it does they will not take measures to prevent this, because it is profitable for them.
I saw those ads and reported them for impersonation. There were similar ads featuring Micheal Martin doing the same. Instagram came back and said they investigated and that they weren’t doing anything wrong.
I knew it wasn’t really him when he wasn’t predicting a recession
The worst thing about it all is when you report them, and youre told they don’t violate any regulations.
I’m still getting fake Anne Doyle and Varadkar.
There’s a few of them floating around, there’s a recent one of President Higgins throwing money into the air, it looks really tasteless and it’s obviously a scam. I report it to Facebook and absolutely nothing happens.
Just to flag here: I reported this exact sponsored post to Facebook, and I got a message back saying the ad didn’t break any rules. Insanity.
Youtube is just all scam.adverts these daya. Like shit from 20 years ago. Bizarre that its not stopped
The ads of David McWilliams on FB fooled my mom.
Instagram is especially bad about this. For example, even if you report the ad, you then have to go into Settings -> Support requests -> Reports to even see if they were removed. I’m honestly not sure though.
Many will say “This ad was removed”. But when I click “see report details” it says “We didn’t remove xyz’s ad”.
Meta doesn’t seem to care at all. From a technical perspective, it would be barely an inconvenience for them to have a system to check if an ad either days “David McWilliams” or uses images or videos that resemble him. They just don’t care.