Awatchdog group says Meta ran thousands of advertisements for apps that digitally undress women, and that the network placing them traces back to a single company in China. The finding lands on a platform that has spent more than a year insisting it is winning this fight, even as it fields separate lawsuits over scam ads elsewhere on its services.
The Tech Transparency Project published its findings identifying 210 Facebook pages tied to a Chinese firm it calls GatherOne. Together those pages ran roughly 30,800 ads for face-swapping and AI tools, and 43 of them ran more than 7,600 ads for apps built to produce non-consensual imagery of women, according to the report.
GatherOne, which the group links to entities registered in Beijing and Hong Kong and to a controlling shareholder named Wang Hao, sits at the centre of the operation. After the report appeared, the company said it would suspend new ad applications for its AI nudify services.
Meta’s own enforcement record tells the rest of the story. Of the 210 pages, 179, or 85%, ran ads the company itself later removed for breaching its standards on adult sexual exploitation, sexual solicitation, and nudity, many of them showing women simulating sex acts.
