"Great ideas will win in a free market, bots or no bots." This is a slogan, not an empirical fact. There are plenty of instances of market failure in cases wh

"Great ideas will win in a free market, bots or no bots." This is a slogan, not an empirical fact. There are plenty of instances of market failure in cases where information about goods is unreliable or manipulated. It's a whole sub-discipline in economics! In the case of politics, actors have a strong incentive to cause the information market (if you want to put it that way) to fail.