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good bots = biden bots, blm bots, chinese bots, and global warming bots. bad bots = republican bots and russian bots.

• Applejinx 5y ago
  You are, I hope, aware that 'BLM bots' can BE Russian bots, intentionally seeding misinformation explicitly for other networks to react to? I daresay that's true for any of it. This is why I often use the term 'organic' to describe social media content that's not spurious. There's organic content, and that alone can be a handful. Then there's stuff specifically cooked up to drive people into a frenzy and feed social hysteria, driving wedges and disrupting a targeted population. There is NO reason, on a publically available platform like Twitter, that the hostile content has to self-identify as the target group for manipulation. Provocation of outrage is often more effective by pretending to be a demographic marked for destruction, and then carrying on in an outrageous fashion for the benefit of angering onlookers. And none of that is good, from any angle: not for general societal well-being. Unless you really like genocides and civil wars… which is where your Global Superpower Adversary bots come in, with an obvious and easy to understand agenda. And that's where we're at, in this discussion.