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Facebook Sued For Lying About Video Ratings

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Facebook was instrumental in changing print journalism forever. Leading to massive firings in most media organizations. Changing the landscape from a more fact-checked to more click bait types. 90% of media orgs fired the writers in favor of expensive video producers who in turn were fired b/c videos are not being watched!!!!!! Facebook seems to be nothing but a house of cards... People should be/might be going to jail for this.

Facebook has been accused of misleading brands by not telling them for more than a year that it was overestimating the amount of time people spent watching videos on the platform.

In September 2016, Facebook admitted inflating its average video viewing figures by only counting views that lasted longer than three seconds. This calculation tactic inflated the average viewing times by 60-80%, the social network told an ad-buying agency at the time.
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Advertisers Accuse Facebook of Knowingly Overestimating Video Viewing | Fortune
 
There's justice in them exploiting sponsors as well as customers.
 
I think advertisers exaggerating the scope of the public reach is nothing new. If they can, they will, and something like this is hard to prove otherwise. I do think that AI could potentially fact-check the landscape and approve or deny certain claims. This would require uncorrupted programming, of course.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...ial-intelligence-tools-can-help/#371b5a61271d

Facebook has been working with four independent fact-checking organizations—Snopes, Politifact, ABC News and FactCheck.org—to verify the truthfulness of viral stories. New tools that are designed to avert the spread of misinformation will notify Facebook users when they try to share a story that has been bookmarked as false by these ‘independent fact-checkers.’ Facebook has just recently announced its plan to open two new AI Labs that will work on creating an AI safety net for its users, tackling fake news, political propaganda as well as bullying on its platform.
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ecofarm said:
There's justice in them exploiting sponsors as well as customers.
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They were deliberately lying about the service they offered. I bought video ads on Facebook, and now I'm sure that the statistics I saw in response to the ads were false.

Facebook needs to be sued into the ground.

And although this is peripheral to the thread, I'm nearly maxed out on followers on Facebook, and at any time their logarithms have guaranteed that I'll never reach more than about fifty of them.

**** Facebook.
 
Cardinal said:
They were deliberately lying about the service they offered. I bought video ads on Facebook, and now I'm sure that the statistics I saw in response to the ads were false.

Facebook needs to be sued into the ground.
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They got ya both ways, huh? I just don't know what these kids are doing with them there facebooks. Ya'll shoulda known better.


;)
 
ecofarm said:
They got ya both ways, huh? I just don't know what these kids are doing with them there facebooks. Ya'll shoulda known better.


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How should I have known they were lying about their video views? I certainly knew that as it was a free service I was the product, but in this case I was the one paying.
 
MeWe.

Still fledging, but a place to go and recover from the FB DTs....
 
Cardinal said:
They were deliberately lying about the service they offered. I bought video ads on Facebook, and now I'm sure that the statistics I saw in response to the ads were false.

Facebook needs to be sued into the ground.

And although this is peripheral to the thread, I'm nearly maxed out on followers on Facebook, and at any time their logarithms have guaranteed that I'll never reach more than about fifty of them.

**** Facebook.
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Similar experience here.
Almost a carbon copy, in fact.
I also got fed up with the constant haranguing about my video ads having "too much text in them" and their claim that ads with too much text don't circulate as well. I sell DVD's, and it has TEXT on the cover of the stupid thing, like ANY DVD would.
What am I supposed to do, sell a BLANK cover?

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I finally gave up on FB video advertising and sell via other platforms instead.
It would be great to sue the crap out of them.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Similar experience here.
Almost a carbon copy, in fact.
I also got fed up with the constant haranguing about my video ads having "too much text in them" and their claim that ads with too much text don't circulate as well. I sell DVD's, and it has TEXT on the cover of the stupid thing, like ANY DVD would.
What am I supposed to do, sell a BLANK cover?

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I finally gave up on FB video advertising and sell via other platforms instead.
It would be great to sue the crap out of them.
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Facebook is evil and needs to be catapulted into the sun, but they were right about that one: those ads have too much goddamn text in them. If Hitler surfaced from the dead and accused your ads of having too much text, I'd be forced to side with Hitler.
 
Cardinal said:
Facebook is evil and needs to be catapulted into the sun, but they were right about that one: those ads have too much goddamn text in them. If Hitler surfaced from the dead and accused your ads of having too much text, I'd be forced to side with Hitler.
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No one is expected to read the text, it's the cover of the DVD.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
No one is expected to read the text, it's the cover of the DVD.
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One cover design for the DVD, a separate ad design for Facebook (completely leaving aside the matter of Facebook's fraud, of course). You have to create the right ad for the right platform. A text-rich ad is a terrible design for Facebook's platform. You need a quick and punchy text that will pull people in immediately as they're blazing from page to page at Mach 50.
 
Cardinal said:
One cover design for the DVD, a separate ad design for Facebook (completely leaving aside the matter of Facebook's fraud, of course). You have to create the right ad for the right platform. A text-rich ad is a terrible design for Facebook's platform. You need a quick and punchy text that will pull people in immediately as they're blazing from page to page at Mach 50.
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See the video clip.
 
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