The researchers used 16 companies to buy fake online engagement for 105 posts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. — AFP
Social media companies are failing to stop manipulated activity, according to a report Friday by Nato-affiliated researchers who said they were easily able to buy tens of thousands of likes, comments and views on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
Most of the phony accounts and the activity they engaged in remained online weeks later, even after researchers at the Nato Strategic Command Centre of Excellence flagged them up as fake.
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