Sep 28, 2021 20:00:00

Claims that an affiliate network that collects data by clicking life hacks and cooking recipes is lurking on Facebook

Political Orphans, an overseas news site, reports that affiliate networks that use fraudulent content 'clickbait' and '

clickbait ' that attract users' attention with sensational texts and images to click on them are spreading.

Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook – Political Orphans
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Clickbait posts pointed out by Political Orphans are as follows. It's just an image with the words 'What's one thing teens really need right now?' The image, which has already been shared by more than 35,000 people, is part of a growing affiliate network on Facebook, says Political Orphans.

This affiliate network shares tidbits like quick recipes and lifehack tips in bombastic and meaningful sentences. Advertisements are posted on the clicked blog, and the affiliate income goes to the blog owner.

However, the affiliate income that can be obtained from this network is insignificant. The content of the actual article is also fluent and nothing is written, and nothing is sold on the blog. Still, according to Political Orphans, this affiliate network has already grown to hundreds of billions of yen.

When asked how this network could make money, Political Orphans replied, 'In the social media industry, data is for sale.'

Cambridge Analytica, a consulting company that actually caused a big scandal that shook the country using Facebook, became a problem by collecting a huge amount of personal information by letting users solve quizzes and answer questionnaires. rice field.

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Below is a list of 'exactly the same' posts posted by one of our affiliate network users every few weeks.
The person who posted earlier (right) was shared with only about 500 people, but the person who posted a few weeks later was shared with about 67,000 people. This is because one user has multiple accounts, generates dozens of similar posts every day, shares posts between accounts, and earns clicks.

In addition to life hacks and cooking recipes, there are also questions that ask for personal information, such as 'What was your first car?' and 'How old were you when you first started working?'

There are also questions that ask about individual actions and thoughts.

This affiliate network collects information such as age, preferences, and region of residence of millions of users, and when sentiment analysis is performed by machine learning algorithms, data sets such as those collected by Cambridge Analytica are obtained. Enter, Political Orphans claims. Facebook has prevented such data collection through its API since the Cambridge Analytica incident, but Political Orphans said it is possible to get data for analysis directly from Facebook if you have programming expertise. increase.

Political Orphans calls for attention, ``Please do not get sweets from strangers or give personal information to bots.If your wife's blog is full of advertisements and promotions, please leave immediately.'' I'm here.