Observatory Report: Interlude: The Engagement Spam Loop

Filed under: Diagnostic Signals.

Noise becomes the product.

Reward engagement → people manufacture engagement.

Spam PRs, clickbait, bot farms, metric gaming.

A digital Cobra Effect: algorithms reward noise over signal, so noise becomes the product.

→ Economic Implosions · → The Observation Layer · → The Economics of Manufactured Mayhem

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