It is interesting to see how casually this manipulation of rankings can take place, especially at great magnitudes, as just one person can manipulate about 100 phones. It makes me reflect on how much I can really trust "honest" reviews and ratings.

I find it interesting that the current culture of social media has really normalized the buying of fake followers. In the influencer world, followers have been equated to some form of social currency and validation.

I think because technology was moving at such a fast and uncontrollable rate, such issues became hard to answer. On top of that, these companies operate to make revenue, so the moral implications of their technology were not something they considered to be relevant in their work, and thus did not care about.

I think an important part of nihilism that should be mentioned is Nietzsche's concept that "God is Dead." I think it relates very strongly to alternative religious beliefs, such as Divide Command Theory, by claiming that belief in a divine source of meaning and morality has largely lost its power.