Meta’s Australian cash machine: $1.5 billion shipped offshore

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram pulled in $1.74 billion from just a portion of its Australian advertisers last year, a 19 per cent jump on 2024, but shipped $1.51 billion of that back to other companies owned by Meta for the privilege of reselling the tech giant’s ad inventory.

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