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'These markets openly sell SMS message verifications for fake profiles across hundreds of sites, providing a service for “inauthentic activity” ranging from vanity metrics boosts and rage-bait accounts to coordinated influence campaigns.'


University of Cambridge
Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched ...
