Tech, Media & Democracy: Reporting on Ad Tech and Social Media Fraud

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 2:40 a.m.

At a gathering of the Tech, Media & Democracy course at Columbia Journalism School, BuzzFeed media editor Craig Silverman discusses his investigations of fraud in the ad tech ecosystem, and New York Times journalists Gabriel Dance and Nick Confessore discuss their recent investigation of fraudulent social media followers for an article called The Follower Factory.