Hacker News
- The Follower Factory https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html 165 comments
- Now we know why it has been so easy for Bitcoin Core zealots on Twitter to buy fake accounts and shill their fake narrative. The NY Times exposes social media’s followers factory where “accounts [are] hawking Canadian real estate investments, cryptocurrency and a radio station in Ghana.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html 4 comments btc
- The Follower Factory https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html 9 comments politics
- The Follower Factory: Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html 7 comments technology
Linking pages
- How Much of the Internet Is Fake? http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html 454 comments
- Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/31/technology/social-media-bots-investigations.html 200 comments
- Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It - The New York Times https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/business/computer-science-ethics-courses.html 186 comments
- Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers - The New York Times https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/technology/twitter-fake-followers.html 160 comments
- How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html 142 comments
- Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells Star in Upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 - Sports Illustrated https://www.si.com/tech-media/2018/01/28/bill-parcells-bill-belichick-espn-30-30 123 comments
- New York Attorney General to Investigate Firm That Sells Fake Followers - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/technology/schneiderman-social-media-bots.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2018%2F01%2F27%2Ftechnology%2Fsocial-media-bots.html%3Fref%3Dhvper.com 100 comments
- Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/business/media/nanoinfluencers-instagram-influencers.html 87 comments
- New York attorney general launches investigation into bot factory after Times exposé - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/27/16940426/eric-schneiderman-fake-accounts-twitter-times 79 comments
- Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/internet-advertising-business.html 74 comments
- Have We Hit Peak Podcast? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html 63 comments
- Over 40 percent of activity on the internet is fake | TechSpot https://www.techspot.com/news/78029-over-40-percent-activity-internet-fake.html 61 comments
- The ABCs of Jacobin - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/the-abcs-of-jacobin-socialist-magazine.php/ 50 comments
- When Bots Attack. Someone bought my Twitter account 10K… | by Geoff Golberg | Medium https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg/when-bots-attack-af7f9f87b612 48 comments
- The Disinformation Vaccine: Is There a Cure for Conspiracy Theories? – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/disinformation-conspiracy-theories-inoculation-edelman-corporate-america-1132325/ 42 comments
- Russian Trolls Stoked Anger Over Black Lives Matter More Than Was Previously Known – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/russian-trolls-hyped-anger-over-black-lives-matter-more-than-previously-known/ 39 comments
- The Chargers Almost Doubled Twitter Followers Since L.A. Move, But 45% of Total Are Now Fake http://thebiglead.com/2018/02/21/los-angeles-chargers-fake-twitter-followers/ 38 comments
- The Existential Crisis Plaguing Online Extremism Researchers | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/existential-crisis-plaguing-online-extremism-researchers/ 37 comments
- State of the Union 2018: Paul Ryan’s Democratic challenger Randy Bryce will be attending - Vox https://www.vox.com/2018/1/30/16950184/paul-ryan-randy-bryce-state-of-the-union 37 comments
- All Twitter Followers Are Fake Followers - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/all-followers-are-fake-followers/551789/?single_page=true 36 comments
Linked pages
- The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&hp=&module=first-column-region&pgtype=Homepage®ion=top-news 480 comments
- New York Attorney General to Investigate Firm That Sells Fake Followers - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/technology/schneiderman-social-media-bots.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2018%2F01%2F27%2Ftechnology%2Fsocial-media-bots.html%3Fref%3Dhvper.com 100 comments
- http://undefined/#.tfta7wxlh3y;reddit 45 comments
- Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/technology/twitter-russia-election.html?_r=0&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65882172&pgtype=article 40 comments
- Nearly 48 million Twitter accounts could be bots, says study http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/10/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study.html 3 comments
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