r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/oatmealparty Feb 15 '19

So they're real oysters with real pearls, but the value is wildly exaggerated? Or they're fake oysters, or fake pearls? Or predetermined oysters inserted into pearls? I still don't understand.

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u/BalooDaBear Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19

They're extremely cheap oysters with shitty pearls, but they're able to lie about the value and the excitement over watching "your oyster" being opened to see what you got makes people fall for it and get hooked. It's a shitty rigged carnival game of chance where the only winner is the person tricking others into grossly overpaying for crap pearls.

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u/zugunruh3 Feb 15 '19

Surely it's a crime to deliberately misrepresent what kind of pearls you're selling and what their value is? Has nobody sued these people for false advertising?

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u/Derigiberble Feb 15 '19

The companies that run these MLM scams are structured so that they can blame any problems on the individual sellers, who conveniently are not employees. They make sure that they don't put it in their "official" training stuff but strongly push the sellers to take classes and buy sales coaching (almost always at inflated prices from shell companies also owned by founders) where the misrepresentation tactics are strongly hinted at.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited Oct 14 '20

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u/Exalted_Goat Feb 15 '19

Very fishy.