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> Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit > Revenue and users are both increasing year over year. They wouldn't lie, of course.
by redial 8y ago
> Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit
> Revenue and users are both increasing year over year.
They wouldn't lie, of course.
- cm2012 8y agoYou don't seem knowledgable about quarterly earnings reports.
- redial 8y agoYou are correct, no company has ever filed a "misrepresenting" earnings report ever, certainly not ones that share the same high moral standards as Facebook.
- mrfredward 8y agoCooking the books is far worse than pushing misleading metrics to customers, at least as far as corporate ethics goes. The risks would be enormous, and the benefit would be temporarily propping up the stock price, which is not all that helpful if you aren't currently raising money. Facebook most likely isn't defrauding investors simply because it goes against Facebook's interests to do so. Of course, companies come up with their own metrics all the time, but they have to be published alongside GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) metrics.