World & Society

New Technologies

Fake friends for sale on social networks

Émission

Nouvo
08 October 2012

Martin Grandjean

Lettres, UNIL

Many sites offer to acquire fake "friends", fake "views" on YouTube or fake "followers" on Twitter.

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