Friends and Influence for Sale Online by NICK BILTON


By NICK BILTON

By using social media bots, celebrities, politicians and others can falsely inflate the number of friends and followers they have, possibly swaying public opinion about a new song — or a policy position.

Published: April 20, 2014 at 12:00AM

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