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Business-Managed Democracy

“Business-managed democracies are those in which the political and cultural arrangements are managed in the interests of business”

Sharon Beder

Business-Managed Culture

Bot Internet Traffic

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Facebook says it finds 67 million to 137 million fake accounts each year. Twitter has admitted to around 8.5% of all Twitter accounts probably being bots but researchers have estimated that the real figure is more like 9 to 15% of active Twitter accounts. “Instagram is littered with millions of bots that copy people’s profiles, share their photos and leave comments on images.”

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In 2013 an estimated 61.5 percent of internet traffic was bots, compared with 51% in 2012. About half of these bots were search engines or ‘good’ bots. The rest were ‘scrapers’ that stole information, hackers, spammers or impersonators (20% of all internet traffic).  

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Source: Igal Zeifman. ‘Report: Bot Traffic Is up to 61.5% of All Website Traffic.’ Incapsula, 9 December 2013.
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