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Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers

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618 points elorant | 1 comments | 19 Feb 21 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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cm2012 ◴[19 Feb 21 16:12 UTC] No.26194612[source]▶
The genre of people who don't work in advertising complaining about how Facebook is bad for advertising is a true HN favorite.

We get it, you don't like FB. That's fine. As an advertiser who knows that FB is far and above every other attention based ad platform (in effectiveness, transparency, scale, etc.), its like listening to nails on a chalkboard to read 90% of the comments in threads like these.

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1. efwfwef ◴[19 Feb 21 22:36 UTC] No.26198950[source]▶
This ^

It's mostly a hate post about facebook, rather than an interesting post. When you pay for advertising, you are always in the dark about the value you're getting unless you actually actively try to measure it yourself. If you don't, then you're committing a newbie mistake.