Social media's black market
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Social media's black market
An NYT investigation reveals that many celebrities, athletes and politicians have bought 'fake' Twitter followers. Devumi, an American company, has sold over 200 million followers, retweets and likes to customers that want to increase their online popularity, promote advertising or even reshape political debate.
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