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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 2 years ago

Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.

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