Re:Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother...
by michaelt on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:30AM
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There are services that sell upvotes - such as [1]. Presumably while also maintaining a large enough set of plausible-looking profiles, IP addresses, browser fingerprints etc to bypass upvote ring detection.
So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign.
A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and with a bit of luck there you have it, it gets reposted onto other sites and maybe even ends up in conventional media.
I strongly suspect the "we get it, you vape" meme was brought-and-paid-for by the cigarette industry by these means.
You can hire ad agencies to make fake terrorist videos and promote racial division [2] so it's not like advertisers are too ethical to do this type of stuff.
So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign.
A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and with a bit of luck there you have it, it gets reposted onto other sites and maybe even ends up in conventional media.
I strongly suspect the "we get it, you vape" meme was brought-and-paid-for by the cigarette industry by these means.
You can hire ad agencies to make fake terrorist videos and promote racial division [2] so it's not like advertisers are too ethical to do this type of stuff.
[1] https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bell_Pottinger&ol...