Complaints about misleading ads for inexpensive clothes on Facebook has brought a concession from Facebook’s VP of ads and pages, Andrew Bosworth, that the firm acknowledges the problem. He says: “We’re looking at ways to incorporate new signals that will help us identify which of the over 50 million active businesses on our platform are delivering products and services that are overwhelmingly unsatisfactory to people.” This is recorded on the consumer site Consumerist with a link to an expose by CBS News in Dallas. A reporter there bought four items (above). They all had problems. Some were putrid, didn’t fit, shapeless or coming apart at the seams. Often the advertised material — leather, wool — was not. In short, they were not what was ordered.
