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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by Black-Plaid on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:51PM (#11905988)
Advertising with them has actually been shown to be detrimental. The Veritasium YouTube channel has bit on this.
Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by GreySquall on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:57PM (#11906027)
Indeed. I actually included (with links and credit) both of Veritasium's videos in the post.

The rest of my post explains in detail my own experience with this problem, including data, screenshots, and my own email correspondence with Facebook's Global Marketing Specialists.