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i'll bite. paid foreign actors. but, how are "quality tweets" not that different from "junk tweets"

• thriftwy 5y ago
  It is internet, so there's plenty of actors, some of them paid, some of them foreign. I quite remember how the USA openly declared that they are going to influence the whole world via the internet domination, and took responsibility for things such as Arab Spring. The fit that the USA tries to throw at the face of some music spam-posted by "paid foreign" bots is amusing in that context. And the whole world understands that context. Very. Clearly.
  • throwaway743 5y ago
    On top of it, the US military and law enforcement agencies use sockpuppet accounts. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with any state actors manipulating public perception out of their own interests. Just agreeing that yeah the US pulls quite some bs too https://www.techdirt.com/2011/03/18/us-military-kicks-off-plan-to-fill-social-networks-with-fake-sock-puppet-accounts/ https://www.techdirt.com/2011/03/18/us-military-kicks-off-pl... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-these-four-steps-counter-police-sock-puppets https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-the...
    • h2odragon 5y ago
      Why shouldn't governments have equal access to the tools of advertising and bullshit dissemination that citizens and corporations do? Ours and theirs. The problem would be when thy have unequal access, wouldn't it? Them or anybody, really...
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