New York Times profiles a sleazy Twitter follower-farm, the sleazy serial liar who made millions on it, and the celebs, politicians, sports figures and "influencers" who paid him

subtly altered usernames (lower-case l’s substituted for i’s, etc), and much larger piles of obviously fake followers whose names, bios and other identifying data were just jumbles of random characters or words.

So… teens?

I don’t even see what part of this is news. We’ve known about similar operations for years, no?