Celebs, others buy clicks for social media boost

Sunday, January 5, 2014 - 13:30 in Mathematics & Economics

(AP)—Celebrities, businesses and even the State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from techies who run offshore "click farms," where they tap, tap, tap the thumbs up button, view videos or retweet comments to artificially inflate social media numbers.

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