Meta lies about its actual stats and you should question using them

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Fake dead users

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It wasn't fixed they still lie

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Brands would rather pretend it’s effective and save money vs go back to making actual brand campaigns.

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This brand is the enemy of the free world.

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Oh no, what harsh legal penalties are they gonna face for this that they haven’t already budgeted for … anyways

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This isn’t new.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/facebook-knew-ad-metrics-were-inflated-but-ignored-the-problem-lawsuit-claims.html - from early 2021

https://fortune.com/2018/10/17/advertisers-facebook-video-metrics/ - from 2018

Seems like this comes up every 3 to 5 years

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Meta reporting growth and the stock popping always makes me shake my head. No shot their actually having that growth, unless all the mole people jus discovered FB

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The stock market is only up because of “the year of efficiency.” Once that comes back around we’re in for it…

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What stats?

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More importantly, they take all of your information and sell it to data brokers or use your photos to train AI. Don't be surprised if one day you see your kid's face in an AI-created ad. Stop posting.

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Wasn’t there a big lawsuit about this? Or am I Mandela Effecting?

Wasn’t there something fairly recently about Google and Facebook making their metrics up?

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