great post as always.

I always had the feeling/knowing that FB, youtube and twitter do manipulate views and popularity of posts. Last year, I posted a video on YouTube about a herbal tea called Essiac, that cures cancer.
When I posted The video it suddenly got views , but than the views decreased the next morning, which is impossible without manipulation. After staying on YouTube for more than one year, that video is still showing only 226 views.

Its great that we have Steemit now, so that we can share useful information and people can benefit from it without any intervention and manipulation by the evil ones.