Instagram influencers who are faking one way they make money, they re posting photos of themselves with a fancy purse. a sponsor. a selfie, i have a chanel bag, i ve been paid by chanel. right. so a bunch of them have been faking sponsored posts in order to convince advertise that s they are worthy. they are faking posts that are fake posts that are meant to look real. six degrees removed from anything that we might describe as authentic. it seems like there s so much money sloshing around and so little accountability for it. facebook is the ultimate example. they re unilaterally telling every publisher in america what the numbers are and what s working and no one can peer underneath the hood. people have said about advertising forever basically 50% of your money is wasted, and you re never going to know which 50%. it s possible it s 100% of your money is wasted. this is one of those things where any time you have a system where it s sort of a purely numerical system
Even when the numbers are accurate we don t have a good sense of what they mean. one example is, we now know that a bunch of russian trolls stole photographs from other people s accounts on the internet and created these fake american facebook accounts to, you know, promote all kinds of weird political ideas. now, those people, if a bunch of guys in st. petersburg are using brazilian guys photographs to pretend to be trump voters are viewing photos on facebook, should those views count? it s a philosophical question. this year it felt like the year of the dystopian internet, why this year? it seemed like everywhere i turned there was some new thing that made me feel completely insane. most recently there s a great atlantic article about instagram influencers, who are faking, they re posting photos of themselves with a fancy purse. a sponsor. a selfie, i have a chanel bag, i ve been paid by chanel. a bunch have been faking sponsored posts to convince advertisers that they are
About it in my last book, it reveals a system of total predation on the part of the police basically using primarily black citizens as means of extracting revenue, first and foremost, as opposed to ensuring their safety. practices identified the doj, have those stopped under the consent decree? at least one of the things that stood out to me, there were many things, police siccing dogs on people. there were more warrants than people in the city. they dismissed a whole bunch of the warrants but still on any given night the line is wrapped around the building and full of black people. regardless people in the community still see what they see and policing of black people. has there been a change to people you talk to about what this concept decree looks like under the trump administration as opposed to the obama administration. a lot of people paying attention to the attitude jeff sessions came in with.
Have those specific policies and practices identified by the doj, have those stopped by the dissent decree? there were many things, the police siccing dogs on people and biting citizens. one of the big things that will stand out is there are more warrants than people in the city. that s right. they dismissed a whole bunch of the warrants, but still, on any given night, the line is still wrapped around the building and it s full of black people. regardless of what policy progression is made, people in the community still see what they see, the policing of black people. has there been a change to the people you talked to about what this consent decree on the ground looks like under the trump administration as opposed to under the obama administration? there are a lot of people who have been paying attention to just the attitude that he came in with. he said there is low morale, they re no good. that the federal government s
Nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? max read joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. so one of these cases, the doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they built a whole raft of fake websites. and then created a bunch of fake people who go to the websites. they moved cursors like real people, clicked on stuff like real people. not humans th