In a functioning society, they would have been prosecuted for fraud by charging for advertising based on fake accounts
Even better....your Fortune-500 companies that advertised at hefty rates....paid way over the norm for what they ‘consumed’. You could probably argue that of every dollar that VW poured into fake numbers/rates....probably 25 cents were flushed down a toilet with no pay-back. If the executive for VW’s advertising imagined this was going on and did nothing....he probably should be fired.
Multiply that by 10,000 companies.
Human rights? what about the human rights of those whose been censored or canceled?