Exactly this. Companies can use these numbers to appear bigger, richer, more popular, more successful, etc., than other platforms and we just trust they're repo

Exactly this. Companies can use these numbers to appear bigger, richer, more popular, more successful, etc., than other platforms and we just trust they're reporting accurate numbers. I also wonder what we could do to change it. Do you think someone independently verifying the numbers would help? Who do you think might do it and how?