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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“Over one six-week period from June to July 2018, Hernández’s Facebook posts received likes from 59,100 users, more than 78% of which were not real people.“

“Honduras was simply not a priority.“ - Sophie Zhang former Facebook data scientist theguardian.com/technology/202…
My previous thread/reply to @guyro explaining why fake likes are Actually Very Bad and should have been a priority to remove.
I published this in December 2017 and was floored at the response it got from people in Honduras, the blog currently has over 11K views. The same activity was happening across multiple platforms and it was blatant.
link.medium.com/QIn5NzKQofb
Thank you for coming forward @szhang_ds

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