After the 2016 election, investigations revealed that millions of "followers" were attributed to sweatshops in India and China that were paying people to do exactly that. But they are DEFINITELY capable of simply fudging numbers; look what they did with the vote count.
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How are they doing that? Creating fake accounts that are automatically following them or are they subscribing people without their knowledge?
After the 2016 election, investigations revealed that millions of "followers" were attributed to sweatshops in India and China that were paying people to do exactly that. But they are DEFINITELY capable of simply fudging numbers; look what they did with the vote count.