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Are Click Farms Devaluing Facebook Followers?

Facebook doesn’t let people pay so-called “click farms” -- typically made up of real people in developing countries -- to artificially boost their follower counts. Yet, science podcaster Derek Muller believes that some page administrators are using click farms to their advantage in a slightly different way. “While generating Likes for their client, the click farms cover their tracks by clicking the Like buttons on many innocent pages, too,” The Washington Post reports. The strategy, however, is greatly reducing the value a Facebook follower, according to Muller.
 

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