In early December I got the kind of tip weve been getting a lot over the past year. A reader had noticed a post from someone on Reddit complaining about a very graphic sexual ad appearing in their Instagram Reels. Ive seen a lot of ads for scams or shady dating sites recently, and some of them were pretty suggestive, to put it mildly, but the ad the person on Reddit complained about was straight up a close up image of a vagina.The reader who tipped 404 Media did exactly what I would have done, which is look up the advertiser in Facebooks Ad Library, and found that the same advertiser was running around 800 ads across all of Metas platforms in November, the vast majority of which are just different close-up images of vaginas. When clicked, the ad takes users to a variety of sites for "confidential dating or hot dates in your area. Facebook started to remove some of these ads on December 13, but at the time of writing, most of them were still undetected by its moderators according to the Ad Library.Like I said, we get a lot of tips like this these days. We get so many, in fact, that we dont write stories about them unless theres something novel or that our readers need to know about them. Facebook taking money to put explicit porn in its ads despite it being a clear violation of its own policies is not new, but definitely a new low for the company and a clear indicator of Facebooks fuck it approach to content moderation, and moderation of its ads specifically.