what is the fine line between 'growth hacking' and fraud?

e.g, Reddit bootstrapped with many 'fake' users engaging with each other

building far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. cofounder at miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

thinking of https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/01/11/jp-morgan-fake-customers-frank-charlie-javice/?sh=1f52d88b14d4, but many social apps did use similar strategy

😱 4M fake account lie. I’m shooketh, this is so sad.

I mean she straight up asked her CTO to make fake accounts to boost numbers. When they wouldn’t do it, she got a contractor to do it and offered to pay him a bonus to change the invoice so it didn’t say “fake accounts”

Feels like a pretty clear line was crossed to me