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Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold, and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any othe…
Why it matters
This signals a broader shift in social. The real question is whether media moves the needle for practitioners.