Thinkarete Lifestyle, cited by Facebook as Q3's most widely viewed Page in the US, seems to be a barely active drop-shipping scheme with stolen content
Garbage Day unravels the mystery of Facebook's most viral publisher in the U.S. this year, Thinkarete Lifestyle, a “barely active drop-shipping scam page full of stolen video content run by an LLC that doesn't even exist anymore.” https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
Finally, since the core of this story is about “checking the math,” we published a full methodology. (It's more than twice as long as the original article!) It's is a collaboration between me and the fantastic @mynameisfiber. https://themarkup.org/...
This is one of those cases where I just fully cannot accept that this is the case - but it really, really does seem to be that a random woman in Utah is outdoing major publishers https://twitter.com/...
According to Facebook's Q3 content report, Thinkarete Lifestyle published four of the most viewed pieces of content on U.S. Facebook this year. Who is Thinkarete Lifstyle? It appears to be a random food blogger from Utah running a drop-shipping scam. https://www.garbageday.email/…
for more about this.... see my column on the 5th anniversary of the “amish bitch” tumblr post in today's Garbage Day 🤠 https://www.garbageday.email/ ... https://twitter.com/...
More on the Widely Viewed Content from @broderick, who looked into Facebook's top publisher for the quarter and found a cuckoo drop-shipping operation running on a defunct recipe fan page https://www.garbageday.email/ ... https://twitter.com/...