Even the founders confessed - no, bragged with the fact that they started the site with hundreds of fake profiles. If that wasn't of any concern to them then, why would it be one now?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...

Things built on lies rarely have a good ending, I wonder whether they considered that back then

Social networks should NEVER be run by for-profits (unless, perhaps, if funding derives 100% from the users themselves), we see why again and again, and yet humanity is failing to learn