From:
The Follower Factory
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, RICH HARRIS and MARK HANSEN
Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Social media is a virtual world that is filled with half bots, half real people. You can’t take any tweet at face value. And not everything is what it seems."
RAMI ESSAID, the founder of Distil Networks, a cybersecurity company that specializes in eradicating bot networks.
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
The company, Devumi, sold at least 55,000 Twitter bots that used personal information taken from real people.
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