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  1. Jan 2022
    1. photos and videos of smiling people, mostly women, drinking Mason jars of black liquid, slathering black paste on their faces and feet, or dipping babies and dogs in tubs of the black water. They tagged the posts #BOO and linked to a website that sold a product called Black Oxygen Organics

      It's funny, the first sentence already rises so many red flags. To me it all seems like a marketing tactic. When putting out videos and photos for your product; the goal is to show your customer how much they need this product! Wether or not the product is good you better believe they are going to "fake it until they make it". Nobody is going to post content making nasty faces after drinking BOO, it is all the story they are trying to give off. It's important to remember the models/actors are paid to promote for their client so they can get sells.

    2. Wong quit taking BOO and told the head of her Facebook group, a higher-ranked seller who earned commission off Wong’s participation, about her new pains. When asked why she didn’t alert others, Wong said the group administrators, BOO sellers themselves, censored the comments to weed out anything negative. “They’d never let me post that,” she said. 

      This short paragraph is a great learning lesson. It seems like common sense to know that group administrators will do whatever needed to protect their company/product. It makes sense that all negative comments get flagged and do not show up on the your news feed, making it seem like the most perfect product on the planet. This is a problem because we aren't able to see everyones real experience with the product. With only great reviews and comments being shared it is very easy to be deceived and not know the whole truth.