A 3D-printed Facebook dislike button is seen in front the Facebook logo, in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on April 25 filed a lawsuit in US federal court to bar a New Zealand company from selling fake “likes”, views and followers to Instagram users.
The company and three people targeted in the lawsuit operated a service to raise the profile of Instagram accounts by bolstering them with bogus followers, views and “likes”, Facebook director of platform enforcement and litigation Jessica Romero said in a blog post.
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