Why should it be against the rules to openly discuss these issues in a thoughtful manner? That kind of silence would only encourage proliferation of the rings s

Why should it be against the rules to openly discuss these issues in a thoughtful manner? That kind of silence would only encourage proliferation of the rings since no one is allowed to talk about it. It’s one thing to just randomly spout accusations, but if a number of users are seeing consistent problems, I think people and mods would want to know. Anyway, see my other reply to dang. If you search on Twitter you’ll see rando accounts posting weird formated links to HN articles, and things auto posting to HN, etc etc. I avoid Facebook alltogether, but I can only imagine there’s more of the same. > These accusations seem to have accelerated a lot since the 2016 election and related claims around astroturfing. Don’t we know for a fact that social media sites have been and are targets of influence campaigns? ie. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/facebook-bans-media-consultancy-running-troll-farm-pro-trump-youth-group/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/faceboo... Since 2016 these issues have rightly had more light shined on them. It’s better that people at least discuss openly that social media is being targeted and gamed for money than have us all stick our heads in the sand.