Not if your users discover the ruse, and mass quit using social media, or worse start abusing it themselves. Reddit had a large drop off in users after the Black day, however, the latter is in fact is definitely going on as well.

The genie is out of the bottle on this one, and social hackers planet wide are now playing the game.

It's not very potent weaponry if your users discover the ruse...

They make every effort too silence people who cut against the grain on this issue: browbeating, gaslighting, censorship, and eventually the ban hammer. Of course, this only slows the fight against these dystopian oligarchs. My hope is that the tipping point will be reached before they have silence too many of us.