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DOJ unseals charges in alleged online massive ad fraud
The Hill ^
| 11/27/18
| Jacqueline Thomsen
Posted on 11/28/2018 12:01:01 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins
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posted on
11/28/2018 12:02:52 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
Russians, the world’s crap people!
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posted on
11/28/2018 12:10:11 AM PST
by
vette6387
To: vette6387
They couldnt be Soylent Green people? Just asking.
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posted on
11/28/2018 12:12:29 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
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.
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posted on
11/28/2018 12:20:23 AM PST
by
mindburglar
(I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
To: vette6387
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posted on
11/28/2018 1:38:44 AM PST
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: mindburglar
This kind of stuff puts new businesses out of business.
To: goldstategop
NPC’s are real, my friend.
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:05:56 AM PST
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko were charged with....... They followed the google business model. The fake hits and clicks business model.
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:18:49 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
It is not the responsibility of the State, to determine if “likes” are real.
The State can not even verify if votes are real.
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:40:05 AM PST
by
Mark was here
(Fake news = "Hands up ... Dont shoot")
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
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...
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:40:45 AM PST
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
How many of these bots are paid to follow politicians, movie stars?
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:43:22 AM PST
by
stockpirate
(TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
To: Mark was here
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.
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posted on
11/28/2018 2:53:08 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
So, extra fake people views equals 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.
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posted on
11/28/2018 3:44:18 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
To: All
......an alleged widespread digital advertising fraud used "botnets"..... gave the appearance of billions of humans looking at online ads....... Democrats' "provisional voters?"
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posted on
11/28/2018 4:13:48 AM PST
by
Liz
(Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
I for one feel much safer now.
{eye roll}
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posted on
11/28/2018 4:31:17 AM PST
by
JParris
To: Alberta's Child
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.
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posted on
11/28/2018 4:33:32 AM PST
by
Mark was here
(Fake news = "Hands up ... Dont shoot")
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
I thought this would be about the Ray-Ban ad.
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posted on
11/28/2018 5:03:27 AM PST
by
Fido969
(In!)
To: Freedom of Speech Wins
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.
To: stockpirate
#12 You can buy ‘likes’ for twitter and facebook and Instagram.
Google: but likes
Fraud and more fraud.
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