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I think in particular reddit has been gamed. Companies figured out that the way to do ads is good old plants in the audience; fake user to user interaction. ”I
by toxik 7y ago
I think in particular reddit has been gamed. Companies figured out that the way to do ads is good old plants in the audience; fake user to user interaction. ”I can confirm this, Pfizer’s HappyPill made my life much easier” is the new type of ad.
Twitter isn’t much better, it too has been gamed. By simply having hordes of accounts saying whatever the message is, and replying to all.
- dymk 7y agoI basically do not trust any claim or article that I read on Reddit, Hacker News, Facebook, or any other social media by default now, if it triggers the "this may be a controversial topic" flag in my brain. That means anything to do with recent events that would make the news, politics, even practically anything "science-y". HN, Reddit, Twitter and any other semi-anonymous social media site are just too easily gamed and astroturfed by anyone with a VPN and some time. Facebook and Twitter's "organic" content tends towards clickbait preying on people's anger responses.