ADS REMAINED ONLINE:
A Taipei city councilor misrepresented the NCC’s authoritiy when she accused it of enabling the schemes, the agency said
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By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday said it had communicated with Meta Platforms about a rising number of scam messages on Facebook.
The commission made the remarks after Taipei City Councilor Angela Ying (應曉薇) on Tuesday accused the NCC of allowing Meta to spread fraudulent job advertisements created by trafficking rings seeking to lure Taiwanese jobseekers to Cambodia, where they would face abusive working conditions.
Ying said the ads remained online even though police have notified Meta about them.
Photo: Yang Mien-chieh, Taipei Times
The NCC has the authority to ask Facebook to take them down, but it apparently chose to do nothing, making it a coconspirator of the scammers, she said.
NCC Department of Broadcasting and Content Affairs Director Huang Wen-che (黃文哲) said that the councilor’s statement misrepresented the commission’s authority.
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