Do you recognize "self-promotion" as a kind of behavior people do, that makes their recommendations less reliable for you than recommendations from uninterested

Do you recognize "self-promotion" as a kind of behavior people do, that makes their recommendations less reliable for you than recommendations from uninterested people? Virtue signalling is another kind of motivated speech where the speaker may be sincere but doesn't acknowledge their own self-interest. They gain status from professing to believe more extreme forms of socially approved views. The benign form of virtue signalling is something like publicly mourning for a while after your spouse dies so other people understand you aren't a sociopath. The runaway form of it is jumping on your spouse's funeral pyre because it shows you are more devoted than anyone else. Or in this case burning up your company's profits on unnecessary taxpaying to show you are wealthy/socialist enough to do that.