"Female creators have been particularly affected by those campaigns, as their videos are more likely to be dislike-bombed when compared to videos uploaded by men."

They always have to bring an angle like this in. Can't say I've ever been aware of such a thing.

I noticed a much more likely pattern. A lot of government videos got downvoted during lockdown, and we can't be having that! (Or the folk in twenty bedroomed houses telling poor people to stay at home.) A lot of resentment in that period.

Hiding dislikes is stupid. they don't even show them to you on the creator page so I'm required to do math to derive the number of dislikes from the # of likes and the '% favorability' metric.

Certainly, such tools can be abused as documented in the article. The solution to this is to deweight signals from people who do it systematically.