https://kassiesa.net/uefa/

This used to be the only way you could view the UEFA club rankings. Billion dollar industry, and some random guy named Bert in the Netherlands was the only way you could learn which leagues were eligible for European football. Still superior to any official sites to this day

Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.

Oh I have no doubt about that - maybe there’s a story behind their strictness. Maybe the companies I’ve worked for have not yet had an employee publicly embarrass the company to such an extent, that they felt the need to make this a mandatory part of employee onboarding.

That sounds unethical, to say the least. Did they verify if you actually did it, or just “suggest” you do?

There was no top-down verification, but I worked with a few Grade A suck-ups, who would proudly volunteer information on which accounts they used and which posts were theirs. I kept politely ignoring the repeated verbal requests until management moved on to their next big obsession.

Corporations drill it deep into your head that _you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products

This isn’t a general or global thing. I have yet to be told above in any place I’ve worked, and one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites