Comment by AuthAuth

I've noticed 4 categories of inauthentic users. Ranked by my perceived prevalence:

Account farmers: these can be people in 3rd world countries automated/not automated. Can be using hundreds of mobile phones to create accounts and do daily activity to make the account look legitimate. While they're building an activity history they are also being paid to like/follow/interact with content.

Advertisers: these are brought accounts that are used to pose inauthentic reviews of their service and inject it into discussion and to do PR

Sloppers: people who build AI pipelines and then just pump the most dogshit content directly into a platform trying to make any amount of money.

Nation State propaganda arms: These accounts build a narrative character and then join discussion pushing a certain narrative, boost real content creators who share their message and bog down discussion.