Falling Down

AKA Data Miners Go on Strike

Amazon targets 10,000 fake review Facebook groups

Jul 2022, BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62214752

 

Amazon is taking legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups, the BBC has learned.

It says the groups are generating fake reviews on Amazon marketplaces in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan.

The tech sector has finally started to cannibalize itself. 

First ever sales fall for Facebook owner Meta

Jul 2022, BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62322862

"When you look at the ad space right now...growth is deteriorating at a very fast pace, much faster than most people had anticipated," Mr Zino said.

Meta's reliance on small and medium-sized businesses - which are "spooked" about the economy - makes it particularly vulnerable to any market slowdown, said Nikhil Lai senior analyst for performance marketing at Forrester Research.

The company's fine-tuned model for targeting adverts was also disrupted last year when Apple overhauled its privacy settings.

Let's just accept it now, in a pretty unexpected turn of events, the Roe decision has pushed the American populace off the privacy cliff. 

Let's also recall the 2014 paper that followed the disease model on a social network and predicted Facebook would run out of users by 2018 (which then happened, although the balance was being replaced by bots at the same time so nobody cared to acknowledge it).

-Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics, John Cannarell, Joshua A. Spechler. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. arxiv:1401.4208v1 [cs.SI] 17 Jan 2014. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf