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From Cosmopolitan

It's no secret that Instagram is rife with fake accounts, and users have been buying followers since the beginning of time (well, almost). While it's easy to forget, anybody can buy followers, including the likes of reality stars, influencers, and those from the Love Island villa.

A new report from IG Audit and Socialblade claims some of the Love Island 2019 contestants are guilty of buying followers in order to increase their numbers, with the social media websites calling out certain Islanders for foul play.

IG Audit works by allowing anyone to type in an Instagram username, and then analysing a sample of 200 of that profile's followers - using information like number of posts, follower/following counts and username to determine a percentage of 'real' followers.

Statistics website SocialBlade also provides analytics on follower growth, so anybody can identify abnormal patterns in a user's increase in Insta followers to see if they've been buying bots.

So according to their data, which Islander has the most fake followers?

The report claims Jourdan Riane (who entered the villa during the Casa Amor twist) has the most fake followers, with 75% of her 596k followers revealed as not real.

Coming in second is Callum Macleod, the first Islander to be booted off the show, with 34% of his 385k followers being fake. When contacted for comment, Callum's manager responded, "None of Callum’s followers are fake".

Greg O'Shea is the Islander with the fewest fake followers - only 14% of his 1.5 million are bots, which could be down to an Instagram glitch. Who'd have thought we could love him even more.

Meanwhile, Belle Hassan is as real as she claims to be, with the lowest fake followers out of all the Islanders - 13% of her 1 million are fake.

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After Callum, Nabila Badda, Maria Wild and Marvin Brooks came 3rd, 4th and 5th in the ranking of fake followers. All four have had an abnormal increase in followers over the last two weeks, creating suspicion that they've bought followers to increase their Insta Ad opportunities.

HOW INTERESTING. We have reached out to the Love Island contestants for comment.

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