Released: March 13, 2018
Companies form to attack bots on Instagram
Source: Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times
In a sunny office in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, Mike Schmidt spends his time ferreting out fake Instagram accounts. Some are obvious, like the one that had never posted a photo and lacked a profile picture yet followed about 7,500 accounts—the maximum allowed by the social media site. Others are trickier.