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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by raverbashing on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:47AM (#26003239)
It probably counts as more active users and more ad views so I guess it's fine by them?

Facebook already established it's fine to fake audience data to advertisers.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by er4hn on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:29PM (#26003821)
Exactly. Twitter wants to increase active users and stats around posts and other interactions. Those are used to then drive sales of ads. Active users doesn't tie cleanly to the effectiveness of ads, but it looks like a nice top of line number.
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