No, during the time windows of media manipulations, the accounts are controlled by the puppet master, not the account owner. The puppet master picks a message a

No, during the time windows of media manipulations, the accounts are controlled by the puppet master, not the account owner. The puppet master picks a message and a rolling schedule, and as in a malware botnet, the bot-side software is listening and autoresponds. You can google the tool's UI panels & instructions, it's pretty clear. Funny enough, you may have heard of Roger Stone, and with all of the Trump indictments and later QAnon scrutiny, some of the details we hadn't known at the time here came out. Hence why I wrote 'cyborg': The accounts are bots during the inauthentic media manipulation, and human otherwise. Twitter is uncomfortable banning these accounts despite TOS violations because they know these are sellable eyeballs. Pretty insidious! Where you are right is there is a slippery slope. A more benign and hypothetical version would be where the user is emailed text to retweet, and in support, people manually do something. That's a grassroots campaign by people. A dark variant happens in reality here: It's quite common for misinformers to build up their twitter feed into a misinfo parallel universe, and with Twitter happily auto-generating a wall full of misinfo recommendations for them, to then like/retweet each in support without actually reading any.