IN ON THE GRIFT: HOW PLATFORMS GOVERN AUTHENTICITY FOR NEO-COLONIAL ENDS

Cryptocurrency has attracted widespread criticism for its exploitative logics that consume resources and trap unwitting investors into highly volatile, unregulated markets with worsening wealth inequality. A key factor in the rise of crypto trading is social media, where an ecosystem spammers, grifters, ‘crypto influencers’ celebrities such as Elon Musk amplify hype generate public interest. While platforms moderate orchestrated platform manipulation through opaque concept ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’ (CIB), here we argue Twitter largely ignoring crypto-related CIB on platform– because it profitable. Informed by a study 1.8 million tweets about top five coins, develop neocolonial perspective highlights how exploits strategically to turn blind eye financial exploitation techno-utopian subjugation platform. line between authentic coordinated activity not always clear cut, suggest construct problem way obfuscates distinction. This raises critical questions content moderation regulation will require us think outside compromised nomenclature have invented their own ends.