Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams?

Meta能否做得更多来保护我们免受网络诈骗?

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-07-10

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Many small businesses are online now, but so are cyber criminals trying to take advantage. On today's show, how one bar owner fell victim to a Facebook scam and if big tech could do more to protect small business owners from increasing cyber attacks. Read Stephan's original piece. Related: The secret world of those scammy text messages After being scammed, one woman tries to get her money back For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Jarrion Woods and...

  • Back with me for a second today in a row is friend of the show,

  • Steven Versaha from the Gulf States Newsroom.

  • Good to be back with you, Darian.

  • And today I have a very different story for you about small businesses, like the Little House.

  • It's this neighborhood bar in New Orleans,

  • the kind of place where you can sip wine

  • while surrounded by taxidermied alligators and chicken feet.

  • We're swamp chic.

  • if you will.

  • Swapstika, I hadn't heard that one before.

  • That is the bar's owner, Hilary Hanning.

  • You look around, we've got taxidermy and all kinds of stuff, but it's like,

  • encompassed with this very bougie-esque,

  • really cool boutique wine selection and fun cocktails and stuff.

  • It's struggling to death, but we're having fun.

  • Now, the real reason we're here is the source of some of that struggle.

  • Hillary's been dealing with a problem that's harmed thousands of small businesses and caused many to shut down.

  • We're talking about cybercrime.