Thursday, September 22, 2016

"Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years"; "Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton"

"the earlier counting method likely overestimated average time spent watching videos by between 60% and 80%"

"Before becoming directly involved in the process, Luckey met the man who would serve as the liaison for the nascent political action group, and provide legitimacy to a Reddit audience for later donations without having to reveal Luckey’s identity: Breitbart tech editor and Trump booster Milo Yiannopoulos."