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    Posted November 22, 2009 by
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    Youtube Fraud

    By kingcozart  |  Posted November 22, 2009  |  beckley, West Virginia
     

    It has been suspected that Youtube frauds it's corporate sponsors by adjusting the comments and view counts of promoted videos. When a video becomes  extremely popular (Fred) corporations (Kodak) can advertise on them. Then, when the video or channel loses popularity Youtube adjusts the statistics by adding comments and views from phantom accounts nobody owns. I caught Youtube red-handed. A comment was made on a popular "Fred" video from "funnykb" while "funnykb" was not logged on.  Fred videos are quickly fading in popularity so Youtube commits this fraud to keep corporate sponsor Kodak interested.

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