Don’t freak out if you see your Instagram audience shrink in the near future. The company announced that it’s kicking off a clean-up drive to remove bots and fake accounts from its platform, and that may well lead to a drop in your follower count. The Facebook-owned firm, which claimed to have over a billion users worldwide in June, noted in a blog post that it will start taking action on accounts with “inauthentic activities:” Starting today, we will begin removing inauthentic likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity. We’ve built machine learning tools to…

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