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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Martyn Landi

Meta brings facial recognition tools to spot celeb scam adverts to the UK

Facial recognition technology used by Meta to spot scam adverts featuring celebrities is to be introduced in the UK and the EU for the first time.

The social media giant, which owns Facebook and Instagram, first began testing the technology in other parts of the world late last year, but confirmed that after working with regulators it was now expanding its use.

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