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>How do you reasonably do this? You would have to spend an incredible amount of effort creating fake data everywhere, without having any clue if what you're doing is even working. With new AI tools and technologies

You answered your own question.

[imiric]

Not really. AI wasn't an option until very recently. How was this managed before?

And even with AI, it would take a considerable amount of effort to flood all public channels with fake data. Do you do this via APIs for every service? Do you generate image and video as well? You would still have no idea whether your efforts are actually working.

Not to mention that using this approach contributes noise to an already noisy medium. Your fight with an imaginary enemy worsens the online experience for everyone else. We have enough junk on the internet as it is.

[mrguyorama]

>How was this managed before?

By being rich enough to hire dedicated companies who provide this service. Reputation management it is sometimes called.