@ricmac This was why I left Facebook in 2017, as it was heading this way. It was full of bot crap even then. There were bot epidemics even in 2014, but Facebook deleted them. By ʼ17, they left bot accounts as they were. Some would talk nonsense to each other, bot nets of thousands. The difference was that they werenʼt plaguing our feeds.
Since Facebook lies about its user base numbers, maybe this is the only way for it to demonstrate it has any activity. And hopefully this is how it dies.