Wednesday, August 7, 2013

'Click farms': how some businesses manipulate social media

http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2013/aug/02/click-farms-social-media-video

A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation exposes how some businesses promote themselves on the internet by purchasing fake Facebook 'likes', Twitter followers and YouTube views. In this excerpt, film-maker Chris Atkins reports from Bangladesh, where 'click farm' workers are paid as little as a thousandth of a dollar per click to manipulate social media statistics.