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Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts (www.engadget.com)
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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And they keep telling us Russia and China are the threat we need to be afraid of

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The real enemy was marketing this whole to time.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 6 points 3 months ago

"He's going after that anti-marketing dollar, that's a lucrative market."

[–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What they might be doing is still not as much a threat to society as what the US and its allies do.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Why not both?