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  • 9/8/2023
There are calls for governments to mandate tech companies add fraud preventative measures on online buying and selling platforms like Facebook Marketplace as users are scammed in the millions.
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00:32 With Facebook, they've scaled the product first,
00:35 and the security and the safety measures just
00:38 haven't caught up.
00:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:43 They're dealing with multinational companies
00:49 with billions of users, and the experience
00:52 they've told us is they're hitting a brick wall.
00:55 (upbeat music)
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