Advertising's House Of Cards

A house of cards built in a world of shit & pain, said world having been built atop a planet that's about to evict many of its residents. The party's just about over & the proverbial fat lady is warmed up & ready to wail the blues, suckers.

 Corey Pein / New York Magazine:

Book excerpt: the advertising industry is plagued by rampant, unchecked fraud but without it the entire digital media business would collapse  —  Without rampant, unchecked fraud, I came to realize, the entire digital media business would collapse.  —  Corey “sells the method.”

Discussion:

David Golumbia / @dgolumbia:   Why do right-wing “free market” types hate regulation so much? One major reason is that it interferes with fraud. @coreypein shows how pervasive fraud is in anti-regulation Silicon Valley. http://nymag.com/...

Alienation / @alienation_mag:   If you weren't grossed out by all the Fiverr ads on the subways and repulsed by the extent of the Facebook data-tracking, @coreypein has got a nice, long read to change your mind. (Spoilers, tech is corrupt!) http://nymag.com/...

Is it possible to die from an overdose of schadenfreude?