A Fake Facebook Ad Killed Off William Shatner. He Responds.

[TheBlackAdder]

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“Star Trek” legend William Shatner set his phasers on Facebook after a sponsored ad circulating on the social media platform’s Messenger service falsely claimed he had died.

A Twitter user alerted Shatner to the premature news of his death on Wednesday afternoon, the day before the actor turned 87. Shatner responded by asking Facebook to investigate.

“What’s up with you allowing this Acocet Retail Sales ad to pass your muster?” Shatner asked. “Thought you were doing something about this?”

The fake ad came at a tricky time for Facebook, which is currently catching heat over a huge data breach ― for which CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally apologized on Wednesday.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/william-shatner-facebook-dead_us_5ab393c8e4b0decad0473747

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Hey @facebook isn’t this your messenger app? What’s up with you allowing this Acocet Retail Sales ad to pass your muster? Thought you were doing something about this?

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Hi, I'm from Facebook. Thanks for letting us know about this. We have removed this ad and Page from Facebook

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Thank you. I’m not planning on dying so please continue to block those kinds of ads.

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[Kirk Lover]

1. He is living long and prospering....and FaceBook is illogical. nt

[calimary]

2. Gee, nice of them to wake up and realize that

there’s a problem - with celebrity crap. These ads are all over the place, targeting Sally Field and other actors who are still alive. They’re kind of like a cyber-version of “Ha ha! Made ya look!!!” This shit has been going on for years! And NOTHING’S been done!

And the problem with this, as you can well imagine, is - if this is what’s going on with celebrities and other relatively meaningless targets, just think of how grotesque the problem is with world figures of real import. Like what these trolls & bots did to spread shit about Hillary, for example.

This shit has gone on for years. And gee whiz, some “Hi, I’m from Facebook” twerp suddenly realizes there’s an issue - and evidently ONLY because the subject (who’s famous and has a marquee name and high profile) complains? What the hell has “Hi, I’m from Facebook” been doing all this time? Playing video games? Sifting through his bellybutton lint? Don’t they MONITOR shit like this? Even just at THIS level - of a William Shatner hack forcryingoutloud?

[malaise]

3. The only thing they monitor is

profit

[backtoblue]

7. + $1000000000000000.000

Edit to add consumers = profit.
Ads = profit for advertisers
Complicit in psychological manipulation of the masses. Greed and control.

[flibbitygiblets]

4. Good for him for calling them on it. There's cllickbait saying Joy Behar was supposedly dead too.

And of course, Ellen did "something unspeakable" that got her fired from Cover Girl.

All false of course.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Good thing they acted on it.............

they could have had a visit from Denny Crane!

[Renew Deal]

6. That ad isn't facebooks fault

Unless you believe that they should personally review all ads. Then it is their fault.

[rusty fender]

8. These type of ads are all over the internet

I got fooled a couple of times before I realized that all of them were clickbait