tangential : Two weeks ago (and for a while) our country's twitter-sphere (Chile) was completely and obviously dominated by bots, they were starting and inflati

tangential : Two weeks ago (and for a while) our country's twitter-sphere (Chile) was completely and obviously dominated by bots, they were starting and inflating trending topics with absurd lies, spreading fear and chaos in favor of "Rechazo" (the option against our new constitution in the next ballot) or echo chambers for republican and extreme right associated politicians.. What happened? a self organized group[1] started to do data analysis of the trending topics and delivering the results to the people showing who was behind the campaigns and synthetic likes, after this, prominent and public figures from that sector started to cut funding for bot networks (because of the public shaming and media attention they were receiving) and is so pathetic now ,they can't even get more than 100 likes and often the most popular response is a refutation or the very same analysis showing the bot network working with substantially more organic likes. I think is a very interesting phenomenon to watch. Note that this lies/fear/chaos campaign is transversal, from rural AM radio to tiktok, but is not working at all. People is very aware of these campaigns and knows how to defend against. Truth is stronger than money. - [1] https://twitter.com/BotCheckerCL https://twitter.com/BotCheckerCL