More Facebook users are speaking out, telling CTV News they’re being inundated by ads for drugs while accessing the social media site.
On Wednesday, CTV News spoke with Calgarian Eric Priddle who said he noticed more questionable Facebook ads on his feed when he started posting updates about his sobriety journey.
After sharing his story, multiple viewers reached out to CTV News to complain about the same issue, saying ads for everything from cocaine nasal sprays and MDMA moon rocks to Percocet, Xanax and ketamine were showing up on some their news feeds.
“The picture on the advertisement was quite literally, people snorting cocaine off of a glass table,” said Layne Ollenberg.
“I clicked on it thinking ‘What’s this all about?’ And yeah, sure enough it was for sale, like you could pick your quality of cocaine as if it was gasoline on this website, so I reported it.”
Ollenberg says he submitted a report to Meta – Facebook’s …