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astroturfing works, and is only getting better/worse depending on your point of view. it used to require people to read forums and make posts manually. now, you
by dylan604 3mo ago
astroturfing works, and is only getting better/worse depending on your point of view. it used to require people to read forums and make posts manually. now, you can automate that with a bot and in multiple languages.
- mmooss 3mo agoWhat are you calling astroturfing? If anything, it would be the comment upthread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127343
- dylan604 3mo ago"On social media, making dubious claims about food science or food ingredients, then following up by selling some "
- DrewADesign 3mo agoIt’s only bad if you value the pittance of social trust people occasionally still afford each other. That’s definitely not as cool as another vacation home and a shiny new gofast boat for some of the few thousand people in this country that actually benefit from this sort of large-scale manipulation.
- verisimi 3mo ago> astroturfing works, and is only getting better/worse Perhaps one would say 'increasing' or 'decreasing'?