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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by Spooky23 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:23PM (#11906432)
It's a harder problem than it seems to be as many real Facebook users behave similarly to spammers. If you take some action that affects 0.1% of users, you piss off over a million users.

Also, nobody is screaming about this, and they make money off of it, so I doubt the motivation is there.

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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by dilemma on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @08:04AM (#11908750)
Even though it is fraudulent, corporate customers like this because they get better KPIs to publish in their internal reports.

This is why Facebook advertising is popular; not because it is effective.

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