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Is this a matter of, "And now they'll change those patterns", or is this something that can be generalized regardless of how the fakes change their posting styl
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Is this a matter of, "And now they'll change those patterns", or is this something that can be generalized regardless of how the fakes change their posting styles? The last lines of the article suggests to me that the answer is something like: This isn't going to work out in the world, only in the lab.
- tyingq 10y agoThe article mentions that services already exist that are stealthy enough to fly under the radar: "The issue with these methods, however, is that stealthier (and more expensive) like farms — which likely do not rely on fake/compromised accounts — can successfully circumvent them, as a result of spreading likes over longer timespans and liking popular pages to mimic normal users. Our recent preliminary study confirms this hypothesis on accounts used by BoostLikes.com, showing that tools similar to those deployed by Facebook (which rely on graph co-clustering) fail to accurately detect fraud."
- Aelinsaar 10y agoSo in essence, this is just going to slightly alter the landscape in terms of which of these services gets the money and the clients.