• Estradiol Enjoyer @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    it is extremely likely that llm bot account Farms are behind this, inauthentic behavior networks are for sale and are routinely used to boost right wing bullshit like this these days. you are not paranoid if they are actually out to get you

    • StartWin@reddthat.com
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      9 hours ago

      What’s hilarious about it, though, was something evident while watching the outcome of the elections here in Australia.

      The right wing funders pay for these bots. The tame billionaire press report on the groundswell of support… And then the right wing politicians and strategists believe the papers and TV pundits that they ‘trust’. Meaning that they have no actual fucking clue what the people’s mood truly is. And can’t react to it.

      So you get the absolute hilarity of watching right wing pollies have their worldview crushed live on air as election results come in. Our right wing guys believed the press and their own analysis that they were in with a shot at government - and were disavowed fast and thoroughly while the nation watched them get the worst trouncing in decades.

      The problem with disinformation programs is that you risk catching yourself in them.