Sentences with phrase «fake ad buy»

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Google Ads Infection: A Ukrainian hacker group made $ 50M with a clever scheme: buying Google Ads with fake links to popular bitcoin sites.

He made the announcement just one day after Facebook released an internal report that found nearly 500 fake accounts possibly tied to Russia bought ads with «divisive messages» between June 2015 and May 2017.

Brands are also worried about their ads showing up in what is perceived as «fake news,» so they are exercising more caution when using programmatic advertising, where they automatically buy digital ad spots through a third party.

Facebook announced today that its internal investigation revealed fake Russian accounts bought at least $ 100,000 of political ads during the 2016 election season.

Facebook disclosed in September that Russians under fake names used the social network to try to influence U.S. voters in the months before and after the 2016 election, writing about inflammatory subjects, setting up events and buying ads.

Last fall, Facebook told lawmakers it would tighten its ad policies after disclosing that more than 3,000 ads were bought by 470 fake accounts and pages run by the Internet Research Agency, a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Last year, he listed his former Patriots teammate Danny Amendola's number on a fake Craigslist ad for a Suzuki Spider, then watched a bewildered Amendola field calls from people looking to buy his nonexistent motorcycle.

National Lampoon was one such force, spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1970 and emerging over the course of the decade as a raunchy (naked women appeared frequently in its pages), surrealist (fake ads were one of National Lampoon's specialties), boundary - pushing (the magazine's most famous cover reads, «If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog») leader in American satire.

There are easier ways for companies to get the content they want in front of large groups of people: there are banners on websites, the Facebook newsfeed is essentially one long paid ad these days, there's no shortage of publicity that can be gained from an article on TechCrunch or Medium, and fake Twitter followers are bought cheaply.

To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location.

The Russian troll farm that bought ads pointing to fake news sites on Facebook also ran a fake Twitter account impersonating the Tennessee Republican Party.

Less than a month later, in May, Time reported that Russian agents had created fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter and had bought ads on Facebook in an attempt to manipulate American social media users.

The desire for growth, keeping users hooked on the newsfeed, and the need to make ad - based cash, is also what made possible the Russian meddling in the US election — that includes their ability to create and share fake news and buy ads on the network without any actual interference.

Several tech companies, including Twitter and Google, have faced criticism for failing to curb the spread of «fake news» on its platforms, and allowing Russian - backed trolls to buy ads to spread misinformation on their platforms.

Last week, news broke a network of fake Russian trolls bought at least $ 100,000 in ads from Facebook between June 2015 and May 2017.

Facebook stated then that it would make it as difficult as possible for those posting Fake News to buy ads on the network, as well as as applying machine learning to help detect fraud and «inauthentic spam accounts.»

Or limiting ad buys promoting any content that's been flagged as fake.

Lawmakers particularly wanted copies of the ads bought through the fake accounts, some of which Facebook officials showed to Hill investigators and then took away, making further study impossible.

This time, it will ban pages that share fake news from buying ads but will give back ad privileges if they stop sharing such news.