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Facebook Sues 2 Companies Over Fake Instagram Likes, Data Collection – PCMag AU
One developer—Nikolay Holper of Nakrutka—allegedly used a network of bots and automation software to distribute fake likes, comments, and views, while in the UK, MobiBurn is accused of failing to comply with an audit.
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In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has been auditing and suspending tens of thousands of apps on its platform. Now, the company is taking legal action against two separate developers for failing to comply with an audit and selling services that inflate Instagram users’ engagement stats, respectively.
In the US, Facebook sued Nikolay Holper, creator of a service called Nakrutka, for using “a …
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