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I think it's quite naive to assume that someone with billions to throw around doesn't have PR and social media management companies working for him. These peop
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
I think it's quite naive to assume that someone with billions to throw around doesn't have PR and social media management companies working for him.
These people are not like us. They're more like sovereign corporations with a pseudo-monarch as head, and a literal army of both overt and covert support workers handling security, PR and impression management, financial operations, and so on.
Social media bot accounts are possibly the lowest cost and highest return form of PR and sentiment management ever invented.
- cwkoss 5y agoI would love for an investigative journalist to try to find an Elon-funded shill network. I personally suspect that his army of stans is large enough he doesn't need shills, but it'd certainly be a huge story if they could prove he was funding shills.
- jjeaff 5y agoSuch large shill operations would be next to impossible to keep secret over the long term. The more people involved, the more difficult to keep secret.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoWhy buy something you are already getting for free, and with ample supply?