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I have no idea what statement you're referring to in particular since it's not in the article and you haven't cited anything. Facebook is looking at tackling f
by cgriswald 10y ago
I have no idea what statement you're referring to in particular since it's not in the article and you haven't cited anything.
Facebook is looking at tackling farming. In that context, the vast majority of accounts are likely to be operated in the same way. They need to avoid detection and they need to do it as efficiently as possible in order to make the most profit. Facebook has now cracked this particular code and an arms race is likely to ensue. But at the moment Facebook discovered this, it was unlikely there were a significant number of farming operations doing things any differently.
No one is claiming this applies to all fake accounts (or if they are, it's definitely not in the article). Obviously a catfishing account will be run quite differently than a farming account.
- kbenson 10y agoI referring to the title of the submission (notable because it's not the title of the article, which is against HN guidelines), which is currently "Fake Facebook accounts can be detected by when they post and the vocabulary used". I assume the top-level comment was referring to that as well. My comment up-thread was really mean to address that while it's true that knowing things with absolute certainty is hard, that shouldn't excuse us from making sure our claims aren't overly broad given the experiment and results.