Thanks u/turtlebam !
Suggestion regarding how many accounts on conspiracy, truth research, Christian orgs, National socialists, etc.. are astroturfing. Basically either feds or Israeli Unit 8200, Jewish university students, bots, etc.. are pretending to be Christian, National Socialists, conspiracy researchers etc..
My conservative estimate is that on many platforms it's a safe bet that no less than 50% are fake users, comments. The percentile in some instances could be as high as 90% because they understand people are unfortunately more swayed by group-think than real arguments or thinking processes.
Very hard truth to swallow. But that's how echo chambers operate. I came to the realization when I busted on BitChute entire networks of shills. Shills making content, shills promoting it casually, shills fighting with other shills to make fake arguments to promote each other indirectly. A complete Potemkin village.
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Thx Thisisnotanexit.
Summary of astroturfing: We all know it's a thing. But my take is that it's far bigger than we may believe it is.
Real world "Astroturfing" is also a thing when Israelis kidnap Palestinians and put them in captivity. The captives are first placed with plants who pretend to be prisoners while in fact working for Israelis. They befriend the real prisoner to extract information without integration.
BUT here is the twist. The first ones make it obvious that they are plants and ask obvious suspicious questions on purpose! So that when the captive is moved into another cell he thinks he is now with real prisoners and not other fake prisoners. This process could be repeated many times. Being moved from one fake prison ward to another.
Many think Reddit is the one infested with bots. Not realizing other smaller hang outs suffer from the same problem.
Some channels with few followers or influencers with small subscriber counts are also infested with this issue. Some of them almost have all of their comment section fake with bots.
So much fakery in the world, sometimes I find some real ones tho but they are rare gems. Glad you're bringing this topic to light.