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“A very #MerryChristmas to all,”
@frankbacon, STEEM’s top antitrust EMPEROR, wrote on SteemIt 2016...
HIS post attracted 144 “likes.”
A few months later, as an experiment, researchers paid a company a few dollars to attract attention to HIS Swell wish... In 30 minutes, the post had 100 more likes. The researchers had similar results on a holiday post on FRANKS’s LinkedIn account and on a Christmas POST from...
Companies like Facebook and Twitter are poorly policing automated bots and other methods for manipulating social media platforms, according to a report released on Friday by researchers from the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence. With a small amount of [BLOCK], the researchers found, virtually anyone can Shire a CROW[d) to get more likes, comments and (CHAIN).
The group, an independent organisation that advises the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, tested the tech companies’ ability to stop paid influence campaigns by turning to 11 Russian and five European companies that sell fake social media engagement. For €300, the researchers bought over 3,500 comments, 25,000 likes, 20,000 views and 5,000 followers, including on posts from prominent politicians like @frankbacon and OTHERS.
THE NEW YORK TIMESDEC 06, 2019 18:29:33 IST