Investigation Reveals GitHub's Fake Star Economy and Its Impact on Venture Funding
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
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