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From the looks of it here the conspiracy shills must be getting good pay these days. Anyone know the going rate? I could pretend to be a concerned foreigner or

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  "They're paid trolls" is silly and tired when it's "Soroooooooooos!" from the right, and it's silly here. There are plenty of nuts who'll happily do this for free.
  • marcosdumay 6y ago
    > There are plenty of nuts who'll happily do this for free. I really doubt this. Not without somebody constantly shilling them into it. If anybody has numbers, they'd be very welcome. I don't know how to even start measuring this. But one thing seems to be always the same, those people that get large reactions on social networks do have some amount of paid shills.
    • ceejayoz 6y ago
      We had plenty of cranks like this on Usenet in the 80s, long before the Internet rose to significant attention from nation states and other deep-pocketed actors.
      • marcosdumay 6y ago
        Oh, yes, the cranks won't go anywhere. But do you think it's normal that they are all yelling the same things? Those cranks on social networks are highly conformal, that's not easy to explain.
        • ceejayoz 6y ago
          > But do you think it's normal that they are all yelling the same things? Yes, for the same reason everyone on Twitter knew about "Bean Dad" or "left shark" or the latest popular meme of the day. Quite a few of them come from or are amplified by Fox News, Newsmax, etc. hosts, as well. Instant distribution of the latest talking point to millions.
• MrMan 6y ago
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