The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
Who Makes Money From Social Media?
Investigate platforms' revenue redistribution schemes.
romantic attraction is FAKE: a presentation
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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
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In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-soc…
They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real
www.wsj.comPolymarket allowed users to bet on whether any one of the 7 defendants in the Cornell rape case will be charged with a felony sex crime and the market did almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN VOLUME
Polymarket Removes Cornell 7 Market After Blowback
frontofficesports.comHey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Social media scams/scam compounds/disinfo
So-called pig butchering scams, romance scams, disinformation campaigns, etc.
Colombia's Petro accuses Israeli cyberfirm BlackCore of election interference
Las denuncias de sesgo contra plataformas digitales se multiplican en las elecciones de Brasil
Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
