2018 was the year the dystopian aspect of the current internet came impossible to ignore. the monstrous -- most unnerving is never knowing what's real, what's fake, who's a human, who's a bot. this new story is out about just how much of the internet is fake. he describes a world of digital deception. "fake people with fake cookies and fake social media accounts, fake moving their fake cursors, fake clicking on fake websites" the fraudsters had essentially created a simulacrum of the internet, the only real thing is ads. here's one example, you want to get a bunch of views for a video, here's one way to do, hire a company in china, this is what it looks like. they just play the video on a wall of phones.