manipulation
Example Sentences
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Muddy Waters has accused the company of accounting manipulation partly to benefit its chief executive, claiming that “without these manipulations, CEO Noto would lose most—if not all—of his performance bonus.”
From Barron's
Also known as streaming manipulation, the practice involves "fake" artists uploading song to sites like Spotify, YouTube, Instagram and Apple Music, and artificially boosting their play counts, in order to gain royalty payments.
From BBC
Teacher and performer, he revealed the works of Nature to a genteel audience amid the sensory manipulations of the theater.
Some of the prediction questions offered by the sites are so thinly traded that they’re vulnerable to manipulation.
From Los Angeles Times
One solution Dr. Van Der Linden advocates for is to "create internal simulated social media feeds to illustrate to teens the dangers of online manipulation in a safe controlled setting".
From BBC
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