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X should go out and ban every network ring that pays others to quote/comment on their posts. If you want to see how it’s done: > companies pay influencers to comment/quote their posts (now sometimes with labels) > they spawn new accounts like ___ “finance” or ___ “<insert country here>”with a new affiliated account > when each company gets big enough they just interact with one another eg. quote posts to boost engagement. By the end each affiliate account ends up with tens/hundreds of thousands of followers. And they use it to boost their other account visibility. My worry is that X is just going to end up dominated by engagement networks marketing company products. Instead of having independent authentic voices.