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Ind.ie (indie@mastodon.ind.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2018 13:24:57 CEST Ind.ie

‘How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them
“They told me that Facebook had revolutionized scamming. The company built tools with its trove of user data that made it the go-to platform for big brands. Affiliates hijacked them. Facebook’s targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don’t need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it automatically.”
Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/how-facebook-helps-shady-advertisers-pollute-the-internet/2334
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  “Granted anonymity, affiliates were happy to detail their tricks. They told me that Facebook had revolutionized scamming. The company built tools with its trove of user data that made it the go-to platform for big brands. Affiliates hijacked them. Facebook’s targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don’t need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it automatically. And they boasted that Russia’s dezinformatsiya agents were using tactics their community had pioneered.” A long...
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