[quote=@Kratesis]
The source seems biased but I thought this article was interesting and they made a fair effort to provide the evidence for their claims. Still, I'd like to see it confirmed by another source.

http://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/2017/02/09/fake-newsflow-are-the-ny-times-guardian-and-wapo-buying-clicks-china-jumps-from-trickle-to-half-of-all-traffic-in-two-months/
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The biggest problems with this are...

A: Paying for clicks isn't a viable business model. It would be a financial loss. If this was not the case, the internet would be a financial perpetual motion machine and none of us would ever have to work again.

B: It doesn't do anything for them but allow them to boast. Fake traffic doesn't mean real traffic, so their narrative wouldn't actually be spreading at a greater rate here.

C: Alexa may be a flawed source. Tracing website traffic is a very hairy thing. I recall a forum IP tracker that always had be in the pacific ocean for some weird fucking reason, when I live some 2000 miles+ from the pacific ocean.