I hear conspiracy theorizing-types talk about how many shills there are online leaving comments and it just got me curious if there's any rational/evidence-based reason for thinking that this is really a thing? What makes people so confident they are dealing with "shills" and not just people who disagree with them? These views are fringe and controversial after all so I don't see why it couldn't just be normal and expected pushback...
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Yes. I was offered jobs, probably fakes, dunno how they got my number, the salary was absurd. Writing comments for a bunch of online adverts. Because after Big Tech exposure, they're paid shit. Literally cents. Until it uses A.I. Or troll groups. These have regular salaries. Unless they're Chinese and Indians.
They used shills, and troll groups, repeatedly in COVID. They've been using them since social media. Bots, shills, the press commenting on its own feces.
Read Reddit.