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I'm glad that this is being brought up. However, duplicated comments are not necessarily faked. For instance, there are many times centralized campaigns that
by IncRnd 9y ago
I'm glad that this is being brought up.
However, duplicated comments are not necessarily faked. For instance, there are many times centralized campaigns that people can sign onto for sending messages. The messages from those, while identical, are proper and what the individuals believe.
This happens on both sides of issues. So, please continue to investigate, but be careful you don't interject your own biases into your investigation.
- dingo_bat 9y ago> be careful you don't interject your own biases into your investigation. That ship has sailed a long time ago.
- Kodix 9y agoSure. But where is this campaign located, exactly? And how come dead people are signing up for it in droves, as has been discovered in the past? And how come people who didn't sign up for it find "their" comments sent, too? I'm all for avoiding bias, but we know enough about this campaign by now to say with certainty it's shady.
- IncRnd 9y agoIf you read the article you will see that whether this is a campaign or not is asked rhetorically, but the question it is not answered. These campaigns are extremely common in the world of online commenting, especially around government commenting systems.
- nadaviv 9y agoThe messages the post points out to are not duplicates, though. They have a very similar meaning, but uses entirely different wording so that they won't appear duplicates. In other words, someone went through the trouble of trying to cloak the fact that they're duplicates.
- IncRnd 9y ago> The messages the post points out to are not duplicates, though. There were two separate categories from the article. This is text from the article, "The vast majority of FCC comments were submitted as exact duplicates or as part of letter-writing/spam campaigns."