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4.5 Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Scams, and...
Archived version [https://web.archive.org/web/20241220192112/https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13459] Download study (pdf)...
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