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Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups

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  1. Deimos
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    Online marketing for rehab services seems to be an extremely corrupt industry doing all sorts of unethical things because it's so lucrative to get a single "customer". Brian Krebs had a good...

    Online marketing for rehab services seems to be an extremely corrupt industry doing all sorts of unethical things because it's so lucrative to get a single "customer". Brian Krebs had a good investigation about a month ago as well that looked into a big fake-review operation going on around some rehab places: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/a-sobering-look-at-fake-online-reviews/

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    lol I saw the CEO of Reddit on stage at RightsCon last week and he basically said Reddit does things in the open which is why they get flack, but the same shit exists on Facebook's closed groups...

    lol I saw the CEO of Reddit on stage at RightsCon last week and he basically said Reddit does things in the open which is why they get flack, but the same shit exists on Facebook's closed groups and it's true. Somehow Facebook never thought to take content moderation seriously!

    This is why I liked the discourse forum for depressed programmers, formerly known as devpressed (now part of OSMI Open Sourcing Mental Illness. It was on a different site, it didn't ask people to pay $$, it was open to all, and you could see if there were any predatory behaviour because it was a public & open forum.