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One assumes that this has been going on since print media has existed, it's just the barriers of entry are getting lower (easier to concoct fake personalities,

One assumes that this has been going on since print media has existed, it's just the barriers of entry are getting lower (easier to concoct fake personalities, easier to get stories spread by paying to clicks). See also for example https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-outlets-duped-by-a-middle-east-propaganda-campaign https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-outlets-duped... I would be stunned if there weren't thousands or perhaps millions of "people" on Twitter that are just mercenary bots farming timeline history and meow-meow beans, waiting to be activated. It's just too easy NOT to do, right?

growlist 6y ago
IRL also - apart from BLM, which was completely organic and without coordination.
pmoriarty 6y ago
"One assumes that this has been going on since print media has existed" For an interesting look in to this, see The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of images in Stalin's Russia. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/08/commissar-vanishes/ https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/08/commissar-vanishes... https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photographs-Stalins/dp/1849762511 https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Phot...