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I imagine these sites need to look/be legitimate in order to be approved to buy advertising on FB. Automating them from press releases is a cheap way to do that

I imagine these sites need to look/be legitimate in order to be approved to buy advertising on FB. Automating them from press releases is a cheap way to do that. FB does some rigorous checks on ad-sets - I’ve had to honeypot their process to debug why on earth they kept rejecting a site (was an automated scraper flagging it? Or was a manual reviewer rejecting it after clicking around? Was the content, user experience, or something else in violation of FB ad policies?): https://facebook.com/policies/ads https://facebook.com/policies/ads Anyways, if these sites want to buy advertising on FB they need to pass this scrutiny. Would be curious to see which urls/content on these sites MassMove sees as nefarious. What landed these sites on the list? Edit: Oh I see, there’s a short list of site operators.

mentor20 6y ago
This content was seen as nefarious: https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/fzunwk/caught_a_dangerous_article_on_corona_by_one_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/fzunwk/caught_a_d... They were running ads by LGIS on Facebook for that specific Corona story: https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoCityWire/posts/844290535981912 https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoCityWire/posts/8442905359819... Rush Limbaugh's quotes the article ChicagoCityWire.com: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/10/two-stories-indicate-coronavirus-herd-immunity/ https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/10/two-stories-in... And the ads got people to post the article to reddit repeatedly: https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g0icy3/rmassmove_launches_cyber_dome_a_bot_that_alerts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g0icy3/rmassmove_...