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The Economy of Spam (2022)


Social Spam is backed by a microcosm of the modern economy. In order to understand this world, I infiltrated one of the largest communities for spammers with my real Facebook account. Here’s what I learned.

One of the largest communities on Facebook offering a complete suite of policy-violating services Re-packaging old memes with the same e-commerce link to reach thousands of users per post. User offering tax verification services to help collect Reels Play payment.

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