{"id":18563,"date":"2021-03-01T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=18563"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:35:08","slug":"disgraceful-facebook-ads-selling-amazonian-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/disgraceful-facebook-ads-selling-amazonian-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"DISGRACEFUL FACEBOOK ADS SELLING AMAZONIAN FORESTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the original <a aria-label=\"report (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-56168844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">report<\/a> by the BBC, sellers on Facebook Marketplace have been offering uncertified rainforest land for sale, boasting of parcels of land as big as 1,000 football pitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC reported that it was easy to find parcels of land for sale by using the search facility inside Facebook Marketplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook was contacted by the BBC and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-ugb-blockquote ugb-blockquote ugb-46972b1 ugb-blockquote--v3 ugb-blockquote--design-plain ugb-main-block\"><style>.ugb-46972b1 .ugb-blockquote__quote{width:70px !important;height:70px !important}.ugb-46972b1 .ugb-blockquote__text{font-size:15px !important}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__item\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"ugb-blockquote__quote\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\"><path d=\"M22.6 12.8c-1.9.5-3.7 1.2-5.3 2.1-1.6.9-3.1 1.9-4.3 3-1.2 1.1-2.2 2.4-2.9 3.7-.7 1.3-1.1 2.7-1.1 4 0 1.2.1 1.8.3 1.8.8 0 1.5-.3 2.4-.9.8-.6 1.9-.9 3.3-.9 2.1 0 3.9.8 5.4 2.4 1.5 1.6 2.3 3.7 2.3 6.2s-1 4.6-2.9 6.4c-1.9 1.8-4.3 2.6-7.3 2.6-1.8 0-3.4-.4-4.9-1.1-1.5-.8-2.8-1.8-3.9-3.1s-2-2.8-2.6-4.6C.3 32.5 0 30.6 0 28.6c0-3 .6-5.8 1.8-8.3 1.2-2.5 2.8-4.8 4.9-6.7 2-1.9 4.4-3.5 7.2-4.6 2.8-1.2 5.6-1.8 8.6-2v5.8zm27.4 0c-1.9.5-3.7 1.2-5.4 2.1-1.7.9-3.1 1.9-4.3 3-1.2 1.1-2.2 2.4-2.9 3.7-.7 1.3-1.1 2.7-1.1 4 0 1.2.1 1.8.4 1.8.8 0 1.5-.3 2.3-.9.8-.6 1.9-.9 3.3-.9 2 0 3.8.8 5.3 2.4 1.5 1.6 2.3 3.7 2.3 6.2s-1 4.6-2.9 6.4c-2 1.8-4.4 2.6-7.3 2.6-1.7 0-3.3-.4-4.8-1.1-1.5-.8-2.8-1.8-3.9-3.1s-2-2.8-2.7-4.6c-.7-1.8-1-3.7-1-5.7 0-3 .6-5.8 1.8-8.3 1.2-2.5 2.8-4.8 4.9-6.7 2-1.9 4.4-3.5 7.2-4.6 2.8-1.2 5.7-1.8 8.8-2v5.7z\"><\/path><\/svg><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__content\"><p class=\"ugb-blockquote__text\">Our commerce policies require buyers and sellers to comply with laws and regulations,<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartalks used Google Translate to translate the word &#8216;forest&#8217; into Portuguese, which is &#8216;floresta&#8217;, and again with the word for timber &#8216;madeira&#8217; and found some dubious results. For example, this one-bedroom house is described as &#8216;ready to move in&#8217;. Yet most of the photos are of the trees and surrounding land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was being offered for BRL R$60,000 (USD$10,772). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-qubely-image qubely-block-2ec028\"><div class=\"qubely-block-image  qubely-image-layout-simple\"><div class=\"qubely-image-media qubely-vertical-alignment-center qubely-horizontal-alignment-center\"><figure><div class=\"qubely-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"qubely-image-image\" src=\"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/121026596_2759268880977126_282413886257851713_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the land was offered with satellite images and GPS coordinates, enabling the journalists to determine the land sold was illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, posing as wealthy investors they met one seller, Fabricio Guimar\u00e3es &#8211; a middle-class office worker from the City who took them to see some land he was selling. He had burned the land to the ground already and boasted that there was no chance for any state inspectors to be any trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s polarising president, Jair Bolsonaro has stated that he sees undeveloped land as an impediment to progress in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av-embeds\/56168844\/vpid\/p0980rx4\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sellers on Facebook Marketplace have been offering uncertified rainforest land for sale, boasting of parcels of land as big as 1,000 football pitches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701,1831],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}