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1. Juho Vepsäläinen 3 min later

   I wonder what this will do to influencer business.

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

      my guess is probably not much—these changes hurt folks that spend money on ads—but there is so little accountability with advertising

2. Chris from 🇨🇦 7 min later

   I know it's difficult to make sense of Meta's intentions at the best of times, but... what in the cash hungry Zuckerberg does this do for anyone?

   1. Zach Leatherman 12 min later

      it allows them to generate more ad impressions!

      1. Chris from 🇨🇦 14 min later

         they should use these bots on IG to watch more videos on Facebook so they can pump up video numbers and sell more people on using Facebook for video... and then dismantle it all a year later.

         Oh wait. That was 2015's storyline. We're already repeating.

         1. Zach Leatherman 25 min later

            Fake content
            Fake engagement
            Fake impressions
            Fake views
            But real money, weeeeeeeee

            1. zelDemon 35 min later

               Of course money is also not real, it’s a fiction our society has collectively agreed to. Like race, it’s a fake construct with real consequences.

               1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                  “money isn’t real” is a few levels above “ad impressions are mostly lies” though—for me, that’s closer to “we live in a simulation” than to what I said 😅

                  1. zelDemon 1 hr later

                     True, I was making an adjacent point. Which in no way negates the point you made.

                     1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                        importantly—do we live in a simulation

                        1. zelDemon 1 hr later

                           Not one we would have chosen, for sure.