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There's this weird sentiment that the only people who use bots are the political party you don't like, and that's simply not true. Everyone uses bots; Russia, U

There's this weird sentiment that the only people who use bots are the political party you don't like, and that's simply not true. Everyone uses bots; Russia, Ukraine, Republicans, Democrats, etc, and even if these parties themselves don't pay for the bots someone else will

notahacker 4y ago
And on the flip side, there's also the assumption that posters who are ill-informed, aggressively partisan and posting repetitive shit constantly throughout the day are bots. But that's actually how ordinary people behave when spending too much time on social media... (There are clearly enormous effective coordinated propaganda campaigns on Ukraine's behalf, but I'm pretty sure kids on Reddit shouting about killing 'orcs' aren't part of it)
- drewrv 4y ago
  Sufficiently advanced fanboys are indistinguishable from bots.
  - notahacker 4y ago
    And on social media, they don't even need to be "sufficiently advanced".
  - skywal_l 4y ago
    On internet, nobody knows you're a bot.