New York Attorney General Opens an Investigation on Fake Follower Factory Devumi

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a detailed investigation study on Devumi. In case you lot missed out the investigation, Devumi is a United states-based firm that sells faux followers to social media users. Following this extensive study, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced that he has opened an investigation on Devumi.

Schneiderman said that impersonation and deception are illegal under New York law and that he is opening an investigation into Devumi and its "apparent sale of bots using stolen identities."

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/957289783490957312

The utilise of automated bots and accounts on social media platform is nothing new to us. We've seen how these bots played a huge roll in 2016 US presidential election. That existence said, Devumi has remained tight-lipped so far, and we're still waiting for a comment.

This isn't the beginning time Schneiderman has taken legal action against someone. Back in December last yr, he too sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect "cyberspace neutrality" rules after the committee voted to repeal the regulations. Plainly, he found around 2 one thousand thousand fake comments submitted to the FCC during the public annotate menstruation for the regulations.

Although increasing your following on social media platform is not the best thing to practice, but Devumi is the one to be blamed here. The NYTimes' investigation details how Devumi created fake accounts of real people on the platform. Devumi'southward customers include actor John Leguizamo, reckoner billionaire Michael Dell, former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, onetime swimsuit model and entrepreneur Kathy Ireland among others.