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I wonder if marketers could start exploiting this. Get something obviously innocent banned in a stupid way by algo, then use the outrage effect for promotion. They already kinda did this with people destroying stuff of companies that made some statements, this seems like the next step.

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Ghostbuster's 2016's supposed "anti-feminism " campaign is an example of this. It's very common and has been forever, since at least newspapers.

Is there evidence that the misogyny was faked by the movie industry?

Or are we just assuming that all such reactions (e.g. the anti-black Ariel folks) are faked to generate support?

The reactions arent necessarily fake, its much more that they hunt out and push those (very small number) for the sake of publicity; and to offset and undermine the credibility of critics.

No one really hears any attacks against GB 2016's critics now, but before release, they were all tantamount to racists and sexists.

> are faked to generate support?

No need to fake it. Just skew your presentation of reality to fit your narrative.

https://youtu.be/UWROBiX1eSc?t=193

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