Hidden Industry Dupes Social Media Users

ronjor · Dec 12, 2011

By Tom Simonite

Paying people to influence discussions in social media is big business in China and the U.S.

A trawl of Chinese crowdsourcing websites—where people can earn a few pennies for small jobs such as labeling images—has uncovered a multimillion-dollar industry that pays hundreds of thousands of people to distort interactions in social networks and to post spam.

The report's authors, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also found evidence that crowdsourcing sites in the U.S. are similarly dominated by ethically questionable jobs. They conclude that the rapid growth of this way of making money will make paid shills a serious security problem for websites and those who use them around the world. A paper describing their results is available on the Arxiv pre-print server.
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noone_particular · Dec 12, 2011

Seems like there's a few of these here, some of which post like they're paid per word.

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