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10,000 phones, zero real humans

A phone farm is what most “bots” really are — one operator wearing ten thousand faces. Here's why proving a real, unique human behind every account ends the model.

A phone farm: racks of automated phones running fake accounts at scale.

Video: CyberNews.

Devrin Harris
BotShield

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