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What's interesting is that Facebook could easily clamp down on this: they certainly have the tools to monitor their network for "fake" accounts and identify act
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
What's interesting is that Facebook could easily clamp down on this: they certainly have the tools to monitor their network for "fake" accounts and identify activity by pools.
Why wouldn't they? Are they counting this manufactured engagement in the figures they use to sell advertisements?
- aaronarduino 8y agoMore likely for showing "good" numbers to their investors.
- wmf 8y agoIt sounds like Instagram could just invert their algorithm from rewarding fraudsters to penalizing them.
- erobbins 8y agoBecause it's a scam all the way up. FB profits handsomely off these fake numbers.
- mic47 8y agoIt is much easier to measure amount of scam than detect. That means that company can report "cleaned up numbers" (at least with error bars) but not able distinguish all bad stuff from good stuff.