The followers purchased by Bilton trickle in over a few days, so as not to be flagged by social media companies that periodically purge fake accounts from their platforms. elections to making people, including aspiring influencers as well as already famous celebrities, "appear more popular than they really are." "These bots are created by hackers and programmers who write code that scour the internet to steal countless random identities by pilfering peoples photos, names and bios."īilton estimates that there are "hundreds of millions" of bots online and they can be used for any number of purposes, from foreign countries spreading misinformation around U.S. The bot followers are "an algorithm that pretends to be a real person on the internet," says Bilton.
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