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Monday, August 13, 2018

"The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views "- The New York Times

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Still, the challenges are significant. At one point in 2013, YouTube had as much traffic from bots masquerading as people as it did from real human visitors, according to the company. Some employees feared this would cause the fraud detection system to flip, classifying fake traffic as real and vice versa — a prospect engineers called "the Inversion."..."


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/11/technology/youtube-fake-view-sellers.html