Remember those articles about how MSM sites were using Chinese bots to inflate traffic? Alexa is now hiding County-based traffic information for them. (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by xbryn

Here is an infographic with the original information.

Now if you visit the Alexa page for The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, the part where it would normally show what country traffic is coming from is replaced with a message that says:

Country-based traffic information is temporarily unavailable for this site.

Here is a screenshot.

Archives:

The Guardian

The New York Times

The Washington Post

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

collegetoker ago

Is there an article that provides more information about the bots?

xbryn ago

This is the original article.