Would a bunch of bot profiles cranking out scripted posts actually be that much of an investment though, seems like something that could be knocked out in an afternoon these days, the only potentially challenging part would be making the bot profiles convincing but even that doesn't seem that difficult all things considered, and even if it was an actual person puppeting the accounts and typing everything, that's still only like 1 full time job
that's why I like to call this infrastructure the "monsanto shill army"...
attempts like these were already being used and were being slowly improved on other astroturfing operations, such as the ones pushing GMO acceptance a few years back
Anyone who reads online financial articles has probably noticed that those articles have been written by bots for at least 10 years now and get published my major news wires such as Associated Press.
Bots cherry pick positive or negative items from earnings reports to manipulate the direction of the stock.
There's not much effort needed when you just wanted people to believe in lies. Go look at the Khmer Rouge. It's the exact same thing. You have money, you have charisma, you have magick in your side, viola. On the next day you have a whole legion of demonically possessed agents capable of mass communist genocide over something mythical.
Would a bunch of bot profiles cranking out scripted posts actually be that much of an investment though, seems like something that could be knocked out in an afternoon these days, the only potentially challenging part would be making the bot profiles convincing but even that doesn't seem that difficult all things considered, and even if it was an actual person puppeting the accounts and typing everything, that's still only like 1 full time job
that's why I like to call this infrastructure the "monsanto shill army"...
attempts like these were already being used and were being slowly improved on other astroturfing operations, such as the ones pushing GMO acceptance a few years back
The fact that all that stuff working up to this just to push this is crazy
Anyone who reads online financial articles has probably noticed that those articles have been written by bots for at least 10 years now and get published my major news wires such as Associated Press.
Bots cherry pick positive or negative items from earnings reports to manipulate the direction of the stock.
gotta wonder what they're hiding
There's not much effort needed when you just wanted people to believe in lies. Go look at the Khmer Rouge. It's the exact same thing. You have money, you have charisma, you have magick in your side, viola. On the next day you have a whole legion of demonically possessed agents capable of mass communist genocide over something mythical.
Lol when a paper in SF is picking up on the bullshit
my first thought as well.
Guessing ol' Eugene is on the list since they got outted as a couple of AstroTurfers that abused Twitter algos.
Anyones grandma actually died from covid ?
I noticed after few years every grandma i ever know is very alive, nobody around my circle died, not even the one grandma with cancer.
I got weirdly disappointed, i hoped at least this much would been true. Not even old people are dropping like flies
The true tragedy is these people almost resulted in the Second Dark Ages as we call it.
And this whole time, I was assuming that every online persona pushing covaids hysteria was fake. Silly me.
lol, yes - if you are oblivious and/or braindead.