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Re:A black market where people pay for Instagram verification by rgbrenner on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:02PM (#15158708)
A website can sell links like you're describing.. that's not illegal. I've seen ad networks that only sold those types of links.

What's being described in the article is commercial bribery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_bribery

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Re:A black market where people pay for Instagram verification by icebraining on Saturday September 02, 2017 @08:16PM (#15158986)
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the BBC doesn't actually sell those links, it was probably a similar situation to the article.
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