>>56526664It's an open secret within big tech that every platform has massive botting and ad fraud problems. In some cases it's trivial to see even as an outside party, e.g. pay for the twitter firehose API, do hash matching, and you'll immediately find a ton of identical shill tweets. But here's how that process goes:
>New hire engineer discovers widespread botting>"Hey guys, if we just do XYZ we can cut this fraud in half!">Department gets excited, makes proposal to do XYZ to their managers>Proposal reaches the level of executives, who get paid based on daily active users>Immediately dies 