Facebook Sues Man for Selling Fake Likes and Followers on Instagram – PetaPixel

If the sheer number of Instagram bots with profiles that read “buy 5,000 likes RIGHT NOW!!!” are any indication, selling fake likes, followers, and comments on Instagram is big business. But it’s also risky, as one fraudster from Belarus is finding out first hand.
In a statement posted yesterday, the social media giant announced that Facebook Inc. and Instagram LLC are suing a man by the name of Nikolay Holper in federal court for selling “fake engagement” through a service called Nakrutka, whi…

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