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Tumblr disclosed which accounts which were controlled by the Internet Research Agency. It was a lot of fun, get to accuse everyone of being a shill since so man
by uxp100 7y ago
Tumblr disclosed which accounts which were controlled by the Internet Research Agency. It was a lot of fun, get to accuse everyone of being a shill since so many people had reblogged from them.
They had gotten tons of reblogs, the most popular one largely posted about black social justice issues and Pokémon memes. Scrolling through isn’t that striking, but the blog did reblog others saying the shooter who killed Dallas police officers could be a mind controlled Manchurian candidate controlled by rfid chips? And some pro Bernie stuff.
- resters 7y agoThis just changes the winning strategy to “have bots post in favor of the position you oppose, then out your human opponents as shills or having been duped by shills”.
- saalweachter 7y agoOoooorrrrr you could just cut out the middleman and accuse your opponents of being shills and dupes without any "proof".
- resters 7y agoExactly. Which is largely what makes twitter’s attempt to police/publicize this stuff absurd.