Are the NY Times and Washington Post Buying Fake Clicks from China? (vesselnews.io) 10 points by Karunamon 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] mayoff 9y ago ↗ Betteridge's law says "no", and the amount of bias shown in the first paragraph was enough to make me stop reading. [–] _rpd 9y ago ↗ It would be even more astounding if the new Chinese traffic was genuine. [–] tantalor 9y ago ↗ Or real. [–] daodedickinson 9y ago ↗ What's your explanation? It's all legitimate traffic even though the NYTimes site is supposedly banned in China? Is it still banned in China? I know it was in 2012. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get through to nytimes from China today.
[–] _rpd 9y ago ↗ It would be even more astounding if the new Chinese traffic was genuine. [–] tantalor 9y ago ↗ Or real.
[–] daodedickinson 9y ago ↗ What's your explanation? It's all legitimate traffic even though the NYTimes site is supposedly banned in China? Is it still banned in China? I know it was in 2012. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get through to nytimes from China today.
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