New York Times: The Follower Factory

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Wendy M. Grossman" <wendyg () pelicancrossing net>
> Date: January 28, 2018 at 6:02:59 AM EST
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: New York Times: The Follower Factory
>
> For IP if you wish:
>
> In this investigation, the New York Times uncovers a multi-layer network
> of fake Twitter followers. Celebrities, entertainers, businesses, and
> social media "experts", under pressure to deliver follower numbers, buy
> followers by the hundred thousand at relatively modest prices. Many of
> these are supplied by the Florida-based company Devumi, which itself
> buys bots for resale, but many are also counterfeit copies of disused
> accounts that use the real names, profile pictures, and hometown details
> of real Twitter users, some of them minors.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
>
> wg
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