> there's another worse issue going on with actually 100% fake job listings.
We've made coding, automation, content creation, and publishing so easy by now that the balance of capability has been tipped to low ability bad actors. And they're gaining the power to make the internet just unusable.
Point taken but the job platforms must be doing a terrible job with countermeasures. I don’t think in many cases these countermeasures need to be that advanced, it doesn’t sound particularly hard for a job posting website to verify that someone works at Ford or whatever.
Quite often when you're getting a job at Ford or whatever, you're not actually getting a job at said company but a talent finder or hiring agency under a 90 day contract to hire. Quite often the parent company will have multiple hiring agencies looking for candidates for the same job.
We've made coding, automation, content creation, and publishing so easy by now that the balance of capability has been tipped to low ability bad actors. And they're gaining the power to make the internet just unusable.