you fuckin got this

i hate this

that tracks that fucking tracks

i mean irl i’d rather be a subsistence farmer than a gold miner

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

based

real “communism is when capitalism” energy

“rules-based international order” where the rule is that the Global North can do whatever the fuck they want because who’s going to stop them?

wait, is that what their username is?? i just see the ☆ and my eyes blur. good poster tho.

but jesus christ that “political” cartoon is so fucked

marvel did it first

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

that aside - jesus christ, so much space is being used for fucking parking.

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.

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