In other News re Another Bad Day for Silly Con Valley Bros:

Facebook Inc. knew of problems in how it measured viewership of video ads on its platform for more than a year before it disclosed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by advertisers.

A group of small advertisers filed a lawsuit in California federal court in 2016, alleging the tech giant engaged in unfair business conduct by disseminating inaccurate metrics that significantly overestimated the amount of time users were spending watching video ads.

The plaintiffs later added a fraud claim, and in Tuesday’s court filing they alleged Facebook knew of irregularities in its video metrics by January 2015 and understood the nature of the miscalculation within a few months, but failed to disclose the information for over a year….

“Facebook’s internal efforts behind the scenes reflect a company mentality of reckless indifference toward the accuracy of its metrics,” the plaintiffs said in Tuesday’s filing

Brought to you by the same people who insist on the awesomeness of patents (LOL) on shove-another-ad-in-your-face “technology”. Wasn’t awesome, wasn’t technology. Cook the numbers, create “value” where there isn’t any, pass the con on to the investor class, make life cr@ ppier for everyone else while destroying jobs for people who can write and creating jobs for bros whose idea of journalism is looping a security cam to the sound of a lame late 80s industrial punk CD.