[j-c-hewitt]

The interesting thing in this is coming right out with how the company built its numbers with botted traffic and referrer-spammed traffic. This is generally under-remarked upon because everyone except for advertisers tends to want to not mention this common practice.

If you bot hard enough you can get real investors and advertisers to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars.

[subsystemm]

Fully agreed. This is the meat of the article.