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Jenny Chan 陳詠欣
Sep 30, 2016

Updated: WeChat influencers caught faking article views; TripAdvisor among affected

WeChat is clamping down on zombies that inflate exposure numbers.

Tencent published these pictures of a bot operation, which it said were provided by a whistleblower.

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