The European Commission should intervene in Meta’s handling of fake online shop advertisements, Dutch consumer group Consumentenbond told the executive today (24 September), claiming it’s in breach of the Digital Services Act. Consumentenbond investigated more than 100 fake shops and found that 71% of them reach their customers through ads on Facebook and Instagram. It claims that Meta hardly checks the identity of the advertisers, which could facilitate abuse, and lead consumers to lose money. Facebook and Instagram are also lax in responding to police reports. While they remove a challenged …