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Operation Blue Virus: IT professionals take money for online character assassination

New Delhi: Social media is no longer a trusted measure for popularity. Likes can be manipulated and fake friends are readily available.  This has been exposed by Cobrapost in an undercover operation codenamed Operation Blue

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: November 30, 2013 15:19 IST



Surprisingly, the companies were ready to do everything: generating lakhs of fake following Facebook, Twitter, not allowing negative comment to appear on the page and a community wise popularity with fake profiles.

As for destroying the reputation of the opponent was considered, the companies would hack into the computers of other individuals for posting defamatory content using their IPs and they had a to circumvent TRAI regulations on mass SMS. And every publicity video would go viral.

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