[Viliam1234]

> Doesn't surprise me in the least that they were caught many times faking numbers because that's the general vibe it gives off.

Long ago I made a Facebook page for something trivial I no longer care about. Facebook regularly reminds me that I should buy some ads to make the page more visible. Facebook also regularly tells me that someone was viewing my page... and by coincidence, it always happens when I am online. That is, I only open Facebook once per day, at different time on different days, and after five minutes of using it I get a message "someone just viewed your page".

From my perspective, this is quite stupid. If you ask for money and all I have is your word that you actually did something for me... it is bad strategy to introduce yourself as a liar. But I assume they did some A/B testing and most customers are gullible.

Another reason I would never buy Facebook ads is that it keeps showing me the same two ads every day, for years. So I would assume they would do exactly the same with my ads... like, I would pay for "10000 impressions" and all I would get is 10 unlucky people who get shown the ad 1000 times each.