Posted on 11/28/2018 12:01:01 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed charges against eight individuals in an alleged widespread digital advertising fraud that reportedly used botnets to give the appearance of billions of humans looking at online ads.
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/418575-doj-unseals-charges-in-alleged-massive-online-ad-fraud
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NPCs?
Russians, the world’s crap people!
They couldn’t be Soylent Green people? Just asking.
This is Google’s and Facebook’s and countless other internet companies’ business model. If it’s found out they employed bots to pump up hits so they could charge more, it would mean billions of $ in lawsuits.
A nice way to bring these oligarchs down.
Crab People
This kind of stuff puts new businesses out of business.
NPC’s are real, my friend.
They followed the google business model. The fake hits and clicks business model.
It is not the responsibility of the State, to determine if “likes” are real.
The State can not even verify if votes are real.
Huh? You mean people lie and pretend to be somethin’ they ain’t and steal from you? Nah...we are stardust...we are golden...gotta hand it to the thieves for being so ingenious....probably just the tip of the iceberg regarding computer based fraud...
How many of these bots are paid to follow politicians, movie stars?
Good point, but it would certainly be a criminal matter if website hits and “likes” are inflated to generate higher ad revenue. That’s a blatant case of fraud.
How about less actual people views? cough cough fakebook, googletube.....
Fraud is fraud, advertisers rightfully use actual views as what they are paying for. To defraud either way is to defraud.
Democrats' "provisional voters?"
I for one feel much safer now.
{eye roll}
I don’t agree it is a criminal mater. Advertisers are big boys. They need to do their own homework, before they trust whatever Facebook is peddling.
I do not want my tax dollars used to protect people who are stupid enough to believe what Facebook. If you believe Facebook, you believe conservative speech, is hate speech.
Television advertisers use private companies to verify viewers, not the Department of Justice.
I thought this would be about the Ray-Ban ad.
Google does this and has been caught by big advertisers. Google would only refund some of the money and did so only after being caught of course. I suspect twitter, facebook do the same as they got their start with lying about their numbers when putting out their IPO and committing stock fraud.
#12 You can buy ‘likes’ for twitter and facebook and Instagram.
Google: but likes
Fraud and more fraud.
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