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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
- dotcoma 4mo agoI can’t believe people are still using Facebook!
- cf100clunk 4mo agoCBC's clickbaity title aside, the findings show that with Facebook Content Monetization: ''There are two beneficiaries of this. One is the grifters who are monetizing. They are engaged in this activity because it is financially profitable for them,'' said Aengus Bridgman, director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory at McGill University in Montreal. ''The other is the platform itself... the ad revenue monetization around the attention that they're getting.'' Unfortunately, those grifters have chosen a particularly loaded political topic in Canadian current events on which to flood those who are easily persuaded by online slop.
- RetroTechie 4mo agoTLDR; "a similar economic model, where monetization incentivizes content that is engaging rather than accurate or accountable (..)"