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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

If an advertiser figured out how to orchestrate that swarm of comments getting behind a recommendation that all seem very natural it would be difficult to tell that it's an ad and not just organic feedback.

I share your worry as well that it may already be happening.