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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by yohoho22 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @10:54PM (#11906921)
And that's all it is?

Because this guy is obviously not a click-farm customer, and Facebook is presumably not paying them to click, either. They're just spam clicking the "boosted" posts Facebook puts in front of them to seem more legitimate?

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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by dilemma on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @08:03AM (#11908746)
The parent is saying that these clickfarm accounts are randomly liking stuff so as to look like normal users. If a group of 10,000 accounts only like things from 5 different pages, the farming would be easy to detect.
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