Facebook lured advertisers by inflating ad-watch times up to 900 percent: lawsuit
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-facebook-lured-advertisers-inflating-ad-watch.html
That "unethical, unscrupulous" behavior by Facebook constituted fraud because it was "likely to deceive" advertisers, the filing alleged.
The latest allegations arose out of a lawsuit that the advertisers filed against Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook in federal court in 2016 over alleged inflation of ad-watching metrics.
Facebook lured advertisers by inflating ad-watch times up to 900 percent: lawsuit
Oct 18, 2018, 5:50pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-facebook-lured-advertisers-inflating-ad-watch.html
> That "unethical, unscrupulous" behavior by Facebook constituted fraud because it was "likely to deceive" advertisers, the filing alleged.
> The latest allegations arose out of a lawsuit that the advertisers filed against Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook in federal court in 2016 over alleged inflation of ad-watching metrics.