If you look at even 'Facebook' there income stream is advertisement space from companies right?
Some major companies (I forgot which one from the article) did an experiment by investing (x) amount of dollars into Facebook advertising. They managed to figure out that the 'clicks' coming from facebookians was false as it was almost entirely clicked by 'bots' and not read or seen by humans. Which is sounding similar to this story on Steem. They realised it was not human clicks because the Facebook advertising had absolutely NO EFFECT on sales or public awareness of new products/offers.
Rise of the bots!
Interesting. Can you find that article? Thanks.
I actually think it was a mentioned in the x22 report.
@x22report
One of his videos in the last few days mentioned it, i will try to find it but if I cant please bear with me.
Here we go, link below. it was the @x22report ! Listen to the video.
https://steemit.com/economy/@x22report/the-economic-euphoria-has-reached-new-heights-when-it-crashes-episode-1345a