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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
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[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went.

Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html