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ghayes on Aug 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: News Feed FYI: Click-baiting

This is generally where big data helps. Your click is one signal among thousands of impressions / clicks. A single user's clicks shouldn't have a large impact in the aggregate.

yanowitz on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

I think the argument is that bot-nets can appear to be 1000s of legitimate users and you can use this to undermine competitors.

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