Like most people I know, I had no idea what a click farm was. So when someone from the BBC sent an e-mail to me a few days ago inquiring about the existence of a click farm in the Philippines, the ...

Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click farms.” Last year, the British photographer spent a month in the ...

In April 2023, British photographer Jack Latham waited on a Hong Kong street for a person he knew only as M. The two men had exchanged messages on WhatsApp and Telegram for nearly a year and Latham ...

In China, the world's largest smartphone market with over 800 million users, a unique type of farm springs up in urban areas. The only crops there are smartphones. The operations, known as click farms ...

Fake products hawked by influencers. Shady merchandise on Facebook marketplace. The internet is filled with fraudulent schemes. Among these bad actors are click farms, a particularly sinister ...

(CNN) — Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click farms.” Last year, the British photographer spent a month ...

A “click farm” is where fake ratings and rankings for mobile apps and social media posts are manipulated. Here’s a look inside. This footage was recently ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore "click farms," where workers tap, tap ...