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Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide (www.cam.ac.uk)
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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago

Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam, while vendors keep millions of verifications available for the UK and US, along with Brazil and Canada.**

Interesting stuff. I would guess this accounts for why products with only 4 stars on Amazon are so often shit. Real consumers only seem to affect the last star out of five.