# What's up with the movie spam on Facebook comments?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351 "2016-03-09T00:00:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351/1 "2016-03-09T00:00:41Z")

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Just about every news story on Facebook gets spammed immediate with ‘links’ to unreleased summer movies. What’s the scam behind this?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351/2 "2016-03-09T01:34:15Z")

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I’ve never seen this. Can you link to an example?

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351/3 "2016-03-09T04:42:10Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> I’ve never seen this. Can you link to an example?

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You want him to link to spam? Here?

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351/4 "2016-03-09T04:59:02Z")

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It’s not a scam. Facebook is paid to display those ads. What’s scamworthy about it?

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-movie-spam-on-facebook-comments/748351/5 "2016-03-09T10:50:55Z")

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Looks like I found the answer with a second Google search, this article appeared below quite a few older ones . [The Facebook Comment Scam That Community Moderators Can't Stop](http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-facebook-comment-scam-that-community-moderators-cant-sto#.ql1LXEN6J)

A media company could put a story on Facebook about a new baby gorilla being born at the local zoo and it’s usually within a minute that the movie spam, Donald Trump spam, or Bernie Sanders spam will immediately flood the comments section.