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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China has comment farms that our contracted to give millions of positive reviews and impressions two products on Amazon and apps on Google Play. Combine this with the Advent of AI, the multitude of profiles on regular social media that don't have any posts but somehow have opinions on a very specific issue, and the practice of sock puppet accounts that multiple people have been caught doing, and it would not be unreasonable to suspect shilling or botting.