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by b1ur 2160 days ago
That's my guess. On twitter/ig, advertising deals would be done directly between accounts and advertisers, so the social media provider itself wouldn't really care; fraudulent engagement numbers are third-party. YouTube is different, where the host also provides the advertising service, and fake numbers hurt Google's bottom line. So they're probably both harsher on fakes and better at detecting them