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		_abox on Oct 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” It's already being misused, consider Cambridge Analytica.

Nextgrid on Oct 9, 2020 [–]

To be fair, Cambridge Analytica was just betting on idiots willingly granting access to their Facebook accounts and the data they ended up gathering was these people's social graph and had nothing to do with ad targeting.

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