Inside social media’s black market: Celebrities, athletes and politicians are buying millions of fake followers, while social media companies struggle to respondhttp://nyti.ms/2By9MQy
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The fake accounts that most resemble real people reveal a kind of mass social identity theft. At least 55,000 of the accounts use the names, profile pictures, hometowns and other personal details of real Twitter users, including minors.http://nyti.ms/2By9MQy
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Half of our
#FakePresident followers are#fake. Just like him.#trump -
Must of them are Russian Bots anyways
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Evidence of the fake world we all live in!
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This is an excellent bit of reporting that didn't just bury the lede, it nuked it. Donald Trump has clearly obtained followers in bulk & more than half of them are fake. Retweet patterns also show a large number of bots. Do your job
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"Automated accounts" - round here we call them bots. Russian ones are usually obvious approximations but the identity theft ones are doppelgangers for dollars.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/957290414129676288 …
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No one finds it troubling that someone video'd all of this without helping either dog. Heartless manipulation.
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Yeah, capitalism. Greed trumps ethics every single f***ing time. Wearing me out over here, Boss.
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Famous people pay for fake twitter followers?pic.twitter.com/izCkciHEES
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The man who Sold the World. VENDO A LO MUMMY El hombre que vendió al Mundo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcDxoVbEdZw …pic.twitter.com/2hp2rNGB81
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isn't the last one John Leguizamo?
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Yeah, he has paid followers. It might be his agency tho. Scary how they take your personal details & replicate you.
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Should be illegal, but I imagine it’s a moral issue to lie?
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This should be illegal
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“By some calculations, as many as 48 million of Twitter’s reported active users — nearly 15 percent — are automated accounts. Facebook disclosed up to 60 million automated accounts.”
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