• outerspace@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    I I know people in russia (friends of friends) who were paid per comment on american and russian social in support of putin and Trump before his first election. Mostly students, there were farms of them. This thing is real, and back then we talked how most of the discussion online is not real

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      28 days ago

      And the astroturf farm at Eglin AFB is the highest source of traffic on Reddit. I’m sure the US military’s astroturf output is absolutely eclipsing anything poorly paid students are outputting.

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        28 days ago

        If they are doing he same thing you might as well consider it coming from the same source

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        28 days ago

        reddit reported it was half of the comments on reddit, besides ru being the other competitor. In regards to israel, im betting they are also involved, especially if you go into worldnews.

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      28 days ago

      its funny how people dismiss that part, when i pointed out how most of the news and politics sub had half the commentors as bots from these countries.