Inside a Chinese Click-Farm

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Inside a Chinese Click-Farm

Inside China’s phony ‘click farm’: Tiny office uses 10,000 handsets to send fake ratings and ‘likes’...

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I’m an ex-Facebook exec:...

May 2, 2017 by

I’m an ex-Facebook exec: don’t believe what they tell you about ads

         ‘The question is not whether this can be done. It is whether Facebook should apply a moral filter to these decisions.’ By...

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Internet Ad Revenues Surge, Tw...

Apr 27, 2017 by

Internet Ad Revenues Surge, Two Companies Get the Spoils

by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2017 The big shift to mobile advertising. It’s not all careening downhill, at least not for everyone – or...

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Even The Editor Of Facebook...

Jun 28, 2014 by

Even The Editor Of Facebook’s Mood Study Thought It Was Creepy

By Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic Catching a glimpse of the puppet masters who play with the data trails we leave online is always...

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Facebook makes you spend more,...

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Most of us use social media every day. Research shows this online networking makes people feel better about themselves. But could...

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Poll shows most users distrust...

May 15, 2012 by

Facebook’s public offering will be the largest and perhaps most highly anticipated Internet deal in history. But faced with great...

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