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"I wonder if facebook is working on such an update. One which would squash most of these click farms. I would think, given their resources, they would." Judgin
by zo1 12y ago
"I wonder if facebook is working on such an update. One which would squash most of these click farms. I would think, given their resources, they would."
Judging from the anecdotal amount of blatantly "fake" accounts I've reported to Facebook, and seen nothing done about... I'd have to say that they don't "care" all that much short of plausible deniability. Accounts, likes, clicks, views are all currency to Facebook, which it trades to prospective companies in exchange for real money.
- blumkvist 12y agoYou think they will take manual action on individual accounts you reported?
- zo1 12y agoThat all depends on volumes, I guess. I don't expect them to put an investigator on every report. There are ways and means to get reliable data out of reports. Example time. FB get's 10 individual and separate reports for one specific account being fake. Let's assume this is some sort of "spike", and unusual. They then have an investigator manually check this account, and verify if it is a real account or not. If X people report it as fake, then it's likely a fake account, therefore human-intervention is required to confirm. Then, stage two. After taking action, they note that those 10 individuals who reported this account matched the outcome of the human investigator. We could then infer that those accounts are: A. Less likely to be fake themselves. And B. More reliable signals of fake accounts. So, next time around. Perhaps the cumulative, or "enhanced" scoring of those accounts' reports requires a lower threshold for human intervention.
- blumkvist 12y agoThis is chasing your tail. Fighting spam at a big level is not as easy as people think it is.