It’s literally how what you see is regulated. If a company X wanted to hide products from company Y, they could make bots to auto-downvote Y products and upvotes X products.
Granted, I feel like more commonly vote manipulation is done for geopolitical reasons rather than astroturfing
alonsohmtz@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
Voting is an indicator of agreement/disagreement and will influence how people feel about a certain post.