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Ian Bogost, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses how Twitter followers can be seen as fake and created for the purposes of spam or resale.
Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/all-followers-are-fake-followers/551789/?utm_source=feed
