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Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.
Via Jessica Kelly
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January 31, 2018 2:20 PM
I'll admit, I'm enjoying this. I have never bought a follower, and I haven't lost any fake/bot followers this week. I use Twitter as a place for authentic communication and info-sharing, not self-aggrandizement or one-way broadcast. I have never followed someone unless I read their profile first, and as my account pushes close to 10K followers, I often recognize follower handles and pictures b/c I've read the bios. I make $0 for using my Twitter account, and while I sometimes think of quitting social, it's never b/c my account is just a front. I wonder if there's any hope that this purge--if it is a purge--will make Twitter feel even a tiny bit like it did in earlier days. We can hope, right?
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WHY IT MATTERS: we must remain more careful than ever regarding the explosion of "fake" social media. This article - along with another referenced in there - provides a glimpse at how huge the world of "fake" is on the Internet: fake news, fake accounts, fake reviews, etc. It raises serious questions about anonymity vs. "verified" and personally identifiable content/accounts - and the potential loss of privacy. Maybe blockchain will provide a solution to guarantee traceability to real individuals while retaining privacy? In any case, something has to happen otherwise the web and social media will soon become nothing but a polluted dump site of fake content....