From the New York Times. Tuesday March 13 2018

Dovetale, a four-person software company Mr. Schmidt
co-founded in 2016, has devised a range of tactics to
identify large numbers of fake accounts that follow
popular Instagram personalities. It then packages
that information for marketers, who are increasingly
skeptical of the audience numbers that often determine
how much money social media stars can command from
advertisers.

An idol on instagram boasts

that ev'ryone follows his posts.

But research has shown

It’s all done by drone --

His numbers are nothing but ghosts

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Mozart’s
“Così Fan Tutte,” set in 1950s Coney Island, uses sideshow
and burlesque performers.

A singer who worked at the Met

Started to get quite upset

When during her solo

The pinheads played polo

And the wild man was caught in a net.

With a fellow reporter’s fawning question to a
Chinese official pushing past the 30-second mark,
Liang Xiangyi, of the financial news site Yicai, began
scoffing to herself. Then she turned to scrutinize the
questioner in disbelief.

Looking her up and down, Ms. Liang rolled her
eyes with such concentrated disgust, it seemed
only natural that her entire head followed her eyes
backward as she looked away in revulsion.

Captured by China’s national news broadcaster,
CCTV, the moment spread quickly across Chinese
social media.

Reporters who wear on their sleeve

What they do think or believe

Will find their careers

Thrown out on its ears

Because they won’t learn to deceive.