which mall? i’ll come with i also need a new vacuum cleaner

i hate this

Hamas has lobbyists and high ranking politicians spread throughout the world. There are right wing fanatical religious movements in different countries supporting Hamas. Hamas has broad support in the West and in Western media. Meanwhile, the Global South broadly condemns Hamas and supports…

wait sorry I got it flipped, that’s all Zionism

a genocide has to start with holo- or else it’s just sparkling massacre

just learned my dad was friends in college with a now resource baron billionaire. huh.

i just drank a glass of apple cider

real “communism is when capitalism” energy

it’s just more vegan struggle session dw

but jesus christ that “political” cartoon is so fucked

marvel did it first

“yes, I voted for Hitler, but the alternative was even worse!”

they always tell on themselves

Bot farms are extremely common but at the same time very unsophisticated. LLM technology (like ChatGPT) is still nascent enough that bots aren’t really using it yet. Most bot farms are dedicated to those shitty YouTube comments about making $500 a day working from home. The technology isn’t there yet to make it pump up anything other than metrics - which is to say they’re only used to signal boost rather than change opinions explicitly.

Astroturfing as you’ve noted is also extremely common though that’s a metric that’s harder to measure since they at least attempt to be slightly covert. It is pretty obvious when you look at the content and the compare it to the engagement. This stuff is still pretty manual and me being a software engineer have no idea how it actually works under the scenes. Bot farms I have a bit of expertise.

BUT these two tools are obviously used in tandem. A few “marketers”/“propagandists”/“influencers” make astroturfed posts and they hit the switch on the bot farms to signal boost them.

They’re right secular states in the Middle East have always failed - just look at what happened to Libya and Iraq. Don’t even get me started on Iran. /s

they don’t have political beliefs they never do

which one of you is @americancommunist6076 lmfao

libs will call trump a fascist but be confused when he supports isn’trael

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