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lidHanteyk on Aug 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style s...

Didn't this happen before with some group called "Klout" or some such? I don't remember what happened to them.

the_watcher on Aug 26, 2019 | [–]

Purchased by Lithium Technologies in 2014, shuttered in 2018. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout

freehunter on Aug 26, 2019 | [–]

They were bought for their machine learning algorithms and the purchaser ditched the rating service because they recognized it was a bad idea.

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