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.
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.