Follower fraud figures fake influence of stars

CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION has uncovered an underground profit chain that creates false data flows for entertainment stars by using software that automatically forwards their micro blog posts to false accounts that "like" them. Thepaper.cn comments:

The number of followers, as well as "likes", forwards and positive comments at some entertainment stars' micro blogs is rather astonishing. Some of them claim to have micro blogs with 30 million followers, while some have micro blogs that received 10 million "likes".

Ke Jie, a famous domestic Go player who has won many championships, even jokingly said that, added together, the number of entertainment stars' followers exceeds the Earth's total population.