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Perhaps of interest: BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones' investgiation into fake likes from earlier this year: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-1
by throwaway_1937 14y ago
Perhaps of interest: BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones' investgiation into fake likes from earlier this year:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237
- anonymouz 14y agoAlso recall the company that estimated that 80% of its clicks are coming from bots (based on disabled Javascript). http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/startup-claims-80-of-its-facebook-ad-clicks-are-coming-from-bots/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/startup-claims-80-of-its-fa... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731 (The original link from the HN submission is unfortunately gone)
- lostnet 14y agoI found roughly the same thing comparing apache logs with google analytics. A direct conspiracy would be a pretty bad business model, but fake friend and spam disseminating accounts may be less likely to be canceled if bots or minions keep them active with bogus activity. If ~80% of profits is really from bots, then it's hard for fb not to turn a blind eye to these accounts.